complete rookie sendmail question

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2005-02-27 11:44, Ken Hawkins <ken at rosewoodblues.com> wrote:
> Found out it was a firewall issue and that is open now. though my
> problem has gone from connection refused to:
> Feb 27 08:22:04 web1 sendmail[85505]: j1MIj4DI065443: <...>
> delay=4+19:37:00, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=esmtp, pri=22920813,
> relay=bhost1.broadjam.net., dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Operation timed
> out with bhost1.broadjam.net.
>
> is there a timeout that I can set in sendmail to set a longer wait
> time on this?

Something else is wrong now.  I can't connect to the SMTP port of
bhost1.broadjam.net, so I can't tell if it's down or just refusing my
attempt to connect.

Are you sure you should be sending outgoing email through that host?

> my flags in my rc.conf are:
>
> sendmail_enable="YES"
> sendmail_flags="-bd -q30m" # -bd is pretty mandatory.

This looks a bit wrong, if you are running a recent release of FreeBSD.
The sendmail_enable option is *NOT* going to work with _flags.  It is
mostly a wrapper around the following:

	sendmail_submit_enable
	sendmail_outbound_enable
	sendmail_msp_queue_enable

You should definitely read the manpage of rc.sendmail, before setting
Sendmail-related options in your /etc/rc.conf file.  Pay very close
attention to the section ``RC.CONF VARIABLES''.

- Giorgos