sendmail

Andrzej Krzysztofowicz ankry at green.mif.pg.gda.pl
Fri Jan 14 06:53:40 CET 2005


Elan =?utf-8?q?Ruusam=C3=A4e?= wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 13 January 2005 22:33, Paweł Gołaszewski wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, Elan [iso-8859-1] Ruusamäe wrote:
> > > 1. service sendmail stop, it always fails for sm-client, because they
> > >    both killproc sendmail:
> > well... feel free to fix that :)
> you could as much just not sent this email :)
> 
> but to fix it i need to know, why it's like it is now, i need to understand 
> what the hell is smcclient-sm (whatever it's called), and besides i saw pid 
> file in /var/spool/clientqueue directory.

/var/spool/clientqueue and sm-client are for sending locally sent mail that
initially fails (then goes to /var/spool/clientqueue - I don't know why
sendmail developers decided to use a separate one here).

> and is there possibility to give daemon() from rc-scripts path to pidfile it 
> should get the pid to kill?
> 
> and i'm not very fond of sendmail, i just needed to empty the queue, because 
> it had been stopped, and i will uninstall sendmail when the queue is empty :)

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  Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz               ankry at mif.pg.gda.pl
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