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- From: sartin@88opensi.88open.ORG (Rob Sartin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- Keywords: mail glenr lock sendmail
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.171913.15423@88opensi.88open.ORG>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 17:19:13 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.150708.1954@tron.bwi.wec.com>
- Reply-To: sartin@88opensi.UUCP (Rob Sartin)
- Organization: 88open Consortium Ltd., San Jose
- Lines: 10
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- In article <1992Sep8.150708.1954@tron.bwi.wec.com> krenz@pql840.bwi.wec.com (Randy Krenz) writes:
- >mail being sent to one user simultaneously. I've played with HP's sendmail
- >quite a bit and I am unaware of a way to size up this retry of 10 so I guess
- >it must be a hard-coded retry counter. Unless someone fixes this, the only
-
- The hard coded retry is in /bin/mail. You can't fix it from sendmail and
- switching to a different sendmail will help only if that new sendmail does
- not use /bin/mail for delivery.
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- Rob
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