Easy, but worth viewing the screenshots: IPredator – Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion.
Although: I should follow Don’t use PPTP, and don’t use IPSEC-PSK either (via: CloudCracker blog)
–jeroen
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Setting up a PPTP connection on Mac OS X Lion
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/05
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a few notes on sendmail and re-trying deferred messages
Posted by jpluimers on 2013/07/05
My sendmail setup is a 2-staged one.
Every once in a while one of the stages stops, and mostly they recover.
Sometimes the second stage doesn’t, which causes a lot of messages in the queue get the deferred status.
Re-trying those deferred messages was a bit of a trial and error case, as my search efforts resulted in a lot of messages telling me what should work, but not what actually works.
First of all, mailq shows you what is stuck in the queue.
snap:~ # mailq
/var/spool/mqueue (2 requests)
-----Q-ID----- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient-----------
q9FLFBkD002197 11967 Mon Oct 15 23:15 MAILER-DAEMON
(Deferred: Connection timed out with smtp.anbid.com.br.)
<debutvtr1@anbid.com.br>
q7S6oxgS023145 5067 Tue Aug 28 08:50 MAILER-DAEMON
8BITMIME (Deferred: Connection timed out with mail.admail.com.ar.)
<trustiest76@admail.com.ar>
Total requests: 2
You can add some parameters for it to show other queues.
So I have a little mq script that shows all queues:
#!/bin/bash
echo "Outgoing mailq";
sudo mailq;
echo " ";
echo "Submit mailq";
sudo mailq -Ac;
echo " ";
echo "Incoming mailq";
sudo mailq -C/etc/sendmail-rx.cf;
These are the commands I tried to flush the outgoing mailq:
sendmail -v -q
sendmail -v -q -OTimeout.hoststatus=0m
sendmail -v -qR@
Only the last one worked correctly.
–jeroen
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