Re: Question about the sendmail_wait variable
Chris Green escribe:
> Under sendmail_wait in the documentation it says:-
>
> "Note that if you specify a value other than 0, the output of the
> child process will be put in a temporary file. If there is some error,
> you will be informed as to where to find the output."
>
> I have sendmail_wait set to -1 but have never received anything
> indicating an error, since it puts the sendmail process in the
> background I don't really see how I could get an error.
>
>
> More to the point is there any way to get the background sendmail to
> indicate if it didn't/doesn't work? What I'd really like is to call
> sendmail as a background task but, if it fails to send the mail within
> a reasonable time (e.g. ten seconds or so) then I want to get some
> sort of indication that the send has failed.
I guess that setting sendmail_wait to -1 your only chance is looking
at your MTA logs.
Cordially, Ismael
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