If the entry is still unavailable, the wait is doubled (up to a
maximum wait of 60 seconds). The total time waited (after all the sleeps without success) is
the interval specified by this AliasWait option.
When the @:@ appears, sendmail checks to see whether the database still needs to be rebuilt
and rebuilds it if it does. If the special entry @:@ does not appear after the specified time,
sendmail assumes that some other process died while that other process was rebuilding the
database. This assumption paves the way for sendmail to go ahead and rebuild the database.
The forms of the AliasWait option are as follows:
O AliasWait=delay ?†? configuration file (V8.7 and later)
-OAliasWait=delay ?†? command line (V8.7 and later)
define(`confALIAS_WAIT??,delay) ?†? mc configuration (V8.7 and later)
Oadelay ?†? configuration file (deprecated)
-oadelay ?†? command line (deprecated)
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The delay argument is of type time and, if omitted, defaults to five minutes. If the entire
AliasWait option is omitted or if delay is zero or non-numeric, the database is not automatically
rebuilt. If the unit of time desired is omitted, the delay defaults to minutes.
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