Re: the qf file

[softtest () wu1 wl aecl ca (Software Test Account)]

On Sat, 25 Feb 1995, *Hobbit* wrote:

> I messed with this a little too -- it appears that you have to get a message
> queued for retry later.  Lots of sites run with Odbackground in their .cf
> files and Sendmail will try to fire off a delivery right then and there,
> using the "ctladdr" it got from the current SMTP session.  If you can get a
> message to queue, though, possibly by CCing to a site that's down, and jam
> the extra "Croot" or "Cdaemon" or whatever line into the queue file, Sendmail
> will read and believe this during the next queue run, and turn on stuff like
> file and program delivery.  Euugh.
This does indeed work quite fine -- _EXCEPT_ -- you need to be root to
modify the qf* files and place them back into the /var/spool/mqueue 
directory.  This is even true for most handicapped UNIX OS's....


Erik
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