[Leaplist] problem mailing kernel ooops's out ....

[Phil Barnett]

On 06/22/2009 06:21 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
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> .... I recently upgraded this box (2 GHz Athlon64X2) to F11 64-bit, 
> went OK, working mostly OK except for NFS server (or something 
> related) which is fried, causing kernel oops's nightly when I try to 
> do my across-the-LAN backups of this machine. Sometimes in the A.M. 
> there is a dialog box open asking me if I want to fwd the gory details 
> to kerneloops.org, which I always do. Sometimes, however, I have a 
> line in my messages file saying that the stuff was mailed. Trouble is, 
> my DSL is down overnight when it tries to mail out, so what happens to 
> those messages ? Lost in the ether ? piled up somewhere awaiting 
> transport ? I do *ALL* of my e-mailing through Thunderbird, so I have 
> done nothing to the default sendmail setup, anyone know what the 
> default behavior/results would be ? TIA ....
>
>
Well, let's think about that again.

When you do have a network, the default version of Sendmail can deliver 
them, so they are probably only sitting in the outbound queue until 
sendmail can send them onward. At that time, it connects to the remote 
mail server and delivers the mail.

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