On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:38 +0200, Ambrogio wrote: > Hi all, > I don't have a good knowledge of sendmail. > I'm created a fetchmail configfile that fetch a lot of mesages, and > deliver them to my local account. > > I noted that sometime messages still in queue, whit a deferred time. > > I don't know why this appens, but I think that is because sendmail is > configured to watch the amount of messages that a user send. > > Is this correct? No. As Tim said, messages are queued (deferred) if they are undeliverable for a reason that might not apply if delivery is retried at a later time (a "temporary failure" condition). An example of such a condition would be an inability to contact the recipient's mail server. Messages are not queued if the reason for the message not being deliverable is unlikely to change at a later time (e.g. destination address does not exist). sendmail keeps track of how long messages have been queued to that it can "give up" trying to deliver them after a given period (typically 5 days). > The same thing appens sometime when I send with sendmail to redhat > account. > I related that fetched messages in queue and outgoing messages in queue > are related to fedora mailing list. The redhat.com mail servers are reported to have a "greylisting" facility that has affected some people in this way, though it's not something I've ever noticed myself. > There is a solution changing sendmail config file, or I have to wait > sendmail deliver their messages? You might try routing messages for redhat.com via your ISP's mail server (e.g. using a mailertable entry) and see if that helps. Paul.
