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тАО01-08-2006 06:24 AM
тАО01-08-2006 06:24 AM
Example a spammer abuses a formmail form and gets a ton of email queued to aol. You being smarter than the spammer set your system to detect high mail queue length and all mail was deferred. Or you simply set the recipient limit to 3 and the idiot spammer tried to relay 5000 messages.
Or you lost network connectivity.
If you answer /var/spool/mqueue you are partially right but get no points.
With RH 4 it only sits there a little while and ghen goes elsewhere waiting for another chance to be delivered. For All I know this dates back a long time.
The directory did not exist in RH AS 2.1 and it did exist in RH 3.
So why didn't I know about it? Good question. I should turn in my crown here.
Anyway, 10 points for the first 5 correct answers. 10 points for a pointer to a document that explains it. This thread will close in 2.5 hours or when I go to bed which is likely to be sooner.
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тАО01-08-2006 10:21 AM
тАО01-08-2006 10:21 AM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
*VNC's home, arcs up VMWare*
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Mail queuing for an external host will go to /var/spool/mqueue until delivered. However, bounces might go through /var/spool/clientmqueue user it came from is a local.
If that fails, it'll then do a dead-letter-drop to 'dead.letter', usually as /var/tmp/dead.letter.
This is assuming, of course, that you're using un-touched RPM based CF files.
If this isn't the flow, then can you grab the output of 'mailq -OMaxQueueRunSize=10' when it occurs, see what errors it's getting with sending/filing.
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тАО01-08-2006 10:42 AM
тАО01-08-2006 10:42 AM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
A good answer, but precisely thats where the mail goes when its dead.
I of course learned this the hard way. If by some chance this is a customization that I'm unaware of, I'll let you know with apologies.
Thread stays open for 24 hours.
:-)
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тАО01-08-2006 05:42 PM
тАО01-08-2006 05:42 PM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
It's customizable now though, 'O DeadLetterDrop=/path/to/file'.
Although in reality, it may as well just be /dev/null for all the use most people get from it.
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тАО01-08-2006 05:47 PM
тАО01-08-2006 05:47 PM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
I was unemployed from Jan-Aug last year, so I've been burried in my new job since. Things have sorta settled down there now (i.e. I figured the systems out, and actually rebuilt 2/3rd's of them! teehee), and now it's finally time for catchup.
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тАО01-08-2006 07:15 PM
тАО01-08-2006 07:15 PM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
>Example a spammer abuses a formmail form >and gets a ton of email queued to aol. You >being smarter than the spammer set your >system to detect high mail queue length and >all mail was deferred. Or you simply set >the recipient limit to 3 and the idiot >spammer tried to relay 5000 messages.
AFAIK, in all these cases (unlike network connectivity problems) emails will reject, e.g. mail server won't save these emails in some-magic-place for future delivery but will just send reject message and drop them.
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тАО01-08-2006 07:42 PM
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Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
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тАО01-08-2006 08:21 PM
тАО01-08-2006 08:21 PM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
The mail source was local, they were on the system. sendmail.mc configuration prevented delivery so they were queued on the system.
What directory?
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тАО01-08-2006 10:28 PM
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SolutionThey don't show up in 'mailq -Ac' ?
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тАО01-08-2006 10:29 PM
тАО01-08-2006 10:29 PM
Re: RH 4 Quiz question on sendmail
I'm pretty sure it's capable of being configured that way, rather than just piping straight into '/usr/lib/sendmail -bt'..