24.9.93 QueueTimeout
Limit life of a message in the queue Deprecated
When mail cannot be delivered promptly, it is left in the queue. At intervals specified by
sendmail??™s -q command-line switch, or by a queue group??™s Interval= setting, periodic redelivery
of that queued mail is attempted. The maximum total time a mail message can
remain in the queue before being bounced as undeliverable is defined by this QueueTimeout
option. (Note that the QueueTimeout option has been deprecated in favor of the Timeout
option of V8.7 sendmail.)
The forms of the QueueTimeout option are as follows:
O QueueTimeout=qtime ?†? configuration file (deprecated)
-OQueueTimeout=qtime ?†? command line (deprecated)
define(`confMESSAGE_TIMEOUT??,`qtime??) ?†? mc configuration (deprecated)
OTqtime ?†? configuration file (deprecated)
-oTqtime ?†? command line (deprecated)
The argument qtime is of type time. If this argument is missing or if the entire QueueTimeout
option is missing, the value given to qtime is zero, and no mail is ever queued.* The qtime is
generally specified as a number of days??”5d, for example. (Incidentally, RFC1123 recommends
five days as a minimum.)
All queued mail is timed out on the basis of its creation time compared to the timeout
period specified by the QueueTimeout option. Eachqueued message has its creation time
stored in its qf file??™s T line (?§11.
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