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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: sendmail not delivering, just queueing
Message-ID: <1991Apr27.014338.12416@virtech.uucp>
Date: 27 Apr 91 01:43:38 GMT
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Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc.
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shi@po.CWRU.Edu (Steven H. Izen) writes:
> someone else wrote:
>>2. find "sendmail" in /bin/rmail. As you can see sendmail is called with
>>   options "-oee" and "-odq" from within rmail. 
>>3. Change "-odq" (this is responsible for the queuing of your incoming
>>   mail)  to "-odb".

>This worked wonderfully.  Thanks to all who responded, I really appreciate 
>the help.  The above fix was the easiest and simplest. 

The easiest fix is to do the following:

	mv /bin/rmail /bin/rmail.orig
	cp /usr/lib/sendmail /bin/rmail

We have been running that way for about 2 years with no problems.
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Conor P. Cahill            (703)430-9247        Virtual Technologies, Inc.
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