setting sendmail.mc options?

[Jeff Hamann]

I'm sure this isn't the correct place for this question, but I'm not sure where to go as I only use my FreeBSD Unleashed to admin my sendmail.

I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help.

I'm trying to configure sendmail, using the freebsd port, to only relay mail once a day (I hate emails every few minutes), and if possible to hold outbound mail in the que (I think there's some que) until some fixed time (like 7am) so that all my mail is transferred then.

I've tried adding:

#sendmail_flags="-bp -q480m" and
#sendmail_flags="-q120m"

after my

sendmail_enable="YES"

and that didn't seem to work.

I've tried adding the following to my .mc file,

define( 'confMIN_QUEUE_AGE', '360m' )

to my mc files. I then typed, "make, make install, make restart" from command line and it doesn't seem to change the behavior.

I'm sure this is a trivial config, but I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help.


Thanks,
Jeff.


Jeff Hamann, PhD
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[Giorgos Keramidas]

Post by Jeff Hamann
I'm sure this isn't the correct place for this question, but I'm not
sure where to go as I only use my FreeBSD Unleashed to admin my
sendmail.
I'm a newbie at this and could use a little help.
I'm trying to configure sendmail, using the freebsd port, to only
relay mail once a day (I hate emails every few minutes), and if
possible to hold outbound mail in the que (I think there's some que)
until some fixed time (like 7am) so that all my mail is transferred
then.
#sendmail_flags="-bp -q480m" and
#sendmail_flags="-q120m"
after my
sendmail_enable="YES"
and that didn't seem to work.

There are different options for each instance of Sendmail:

$ grep 'sendmail.*flags' /etc/defaults/rc.conf
sendmail_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (as a server)
sendmail_submit_flags="-L sm-mta -bd -q30m -ODaemonPortOptions=Addr=localhost"
sendmail_outbound_flags="-L sm-queue -q30m" # Flags to sendmail (outbound only)
sendmail_msp_queue_flags="-L sm-msp-queue -Ac -q30m"
$

So you have to set the sendmail_xxx_flags of the daemon you are using,
instead of the global sendmail_flags.