September 2004
Intermediate to advanced
192 pages
10h 12m
English
Content preview from sendmail 8.13 Companion
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Chapter 11. Manage the Queue
Mail messages can be either delivered immediately or held for later
delivery. Held messages are referred to as
queued. They are placed into either a single
holding directory (usually called mqueue) or
several
directories
from which they are later delivered.
What’s New with V8.13
The
qffile’s V line has been bumped to V8 in support of queue quarantining (Section 11.1.1 [V8.13]).Queue quarantining is now officially supported (Section 11.1.2 [V8.13]).
The
qffile’s newqline lists the quarantine reason (Section 11.1.5 [V8.13]).You may now manage lost (
Qffile) envelopes (Section 11.1.6 [V8.13]).Tunable queue-processing delays (Section 11.1.4 [V8.13]).
The new
confTO_QUEUERETURN_DSNmcmacro (see Section 4.1.3 [V8.13]).The new
confTO_QUEUEWARN_DSNmcmacro (see Section 4.1.4 [V8.13]).
The qf File’s V Line
The V line
(11.11.19[3ed]) in the qf
file (11.2.5[3ed]) corresponds
to the version of sendmail that created it.
Table 11-1 compares V line
qf file versions to corresponding
sendmail versions.
Table 11-1. Queue qf file versions
|
V version |
sendmail version |
|---|---|
|
1 |
8.6 and earlier |
|
2 |
8.7 and 8.8 |
|
3 |
8.9 |
|
|
8.10 and 8.11 built with -D_FFR_QUEUEDELAY not defined |
|
|
8.10 and 8.11 built with -D_FFR_QUEUEDELAY defined |
|
|
8.12 built with -D_FFR_QUEUEDELAY not defined |
|
|
8.12 built with -D_FFR_QUEUEDELAY defined |
|
|
8.13 |
Note that the qf file’s
V8 line corresponds to V8.13
sendmail, which added official support for queue
quarantining.
Queue Quarantining ...
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