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- From: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
- Subject: Re: /usr/mail/glenr.lock not creatable after 10 tries
- In-Reply-To: sartin@88opensi.88open.ORG's message of 9 Sep 92 17: 19:13 GMT
- Message-ID: <TT.92Sep10141025@tarzan.jyu.fi>
- Originator: tt@tarzan.jyu.fi
- Sender: news@jyu.fi (News articles)
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- Organization: University of Jyvaskyla
- References: <1992Sep8.150708.1954@tron.bwi.wec.com>
- <1992Sep9.171913.15423@88opensi.88open.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 12:10:25 GMT
- Lines: 18
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- In article <1992Sep9.171913.15423@88opensi.88open.ORG> sartin@88opensi.88open.ORG (Rob Sartin) writes:
-
- >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.
-
- I think even HP sendmail can be configured not to use /bin/mail
- (actually it uses /bin/rmail, btw), if you have something to replace
- it with. It's defined in the line beginning with Mlocal in
- sendmail.cf. (Warning: meddling with sendmail.cf without knowing what
- you are doing can be hazardous to your mail.)
- --
- Tapani Tarvainen (tarvaine@jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)
-