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  15     <B>Ian R. Justman</B>
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  19     <I>Tue Nov 23 10:31:12 PST 2004</I>
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  34 <PRE>Craig Edwards wrote:
  35 &gt;<i> i'd recommend using smtp rather than sendmail if you're doing this, so
  36 </I>&gt;<i> that your mailer daemon handles mail retries for you. If your own local
  37 </I>&gt;<i> mailserver is down this is more of a problem than a remote mailserver
  38 </I>&gt;<i> being down and will probably be fixed much faster.
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  40 Given your explanation, wouldn't it make more sense to use sendmail to
  41 submit?  The sendmail process would submit it to your local machine's
  42 queue, then the MTA on that machine would either send it out or
  43 smarthost it, depending on the configuration.  And if the remote server
  44 or smart host were down, the message would be in the local machine's
  45 MTA's queue, per what Andy said.  It's better to let your MTA handle
  46 queueing of mail since that's specifically what it's designed to do.  ;)
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  48 The only issue I would see with the &quot;sendmail&quot; method is that it may not
  49 work with all MTAs.  Sendmail, Postfix and Exim probably fare the best
  50 at sendmail-style submission.  I'm not 100% sure about qmail; I don't
  51 use it myself for... various reasons. ;)  (Andy will likely concur with
  52 me for many of the same reasons.)
  53
  54 --Ian R. Justman, Co-Founder and Postmaster, The EsperNet IRC Network.
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