[Gllug] So that's how you do it

Nix nix at esperi.org.uk
Fri Jun 3 16:40:27 UTC 2005


On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, Russell Howe yowled:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2005 at 12:15:20PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
>> Just worked out what sendmail -Ac -q does
> 
> I guess something similar to exim -qff?

I think so. It flushes the client submission queue, where stuff sent
from the local machine gets put until it's offered to the upstream
relay.

This allows /usr/sbin/sendmail to not need privileges to write to
the main mail queue.

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