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

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 06/25/09 11:06, Phil Barnett wrote:
> On 06/23/2009 04:15 PM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>>
>> I just didn't know if it would wait until I was back online to send 
>> them along. For that matter, how does it know when I am back online 
>> (i.e. connected to the internet) ? I have a LAN w/ my modem/router 
>> connected through a Netgear SOHO 8-port gigabit switch w/ 5 other 
>> machines on there, along w/ the modem-router, does it (sendmail on my 
>> box) sit there & ping out occasionally to see if it can send out now 
>> ? TIA ....
>>
> All mail hosts try to deliver mail for 7 days (by default) and then 
> give up and send it back to the sender.
>
> Each mail host does this a different way, but it's something like. Try 
> in half hour. Try again in one hour. Try again in 3 hours. Try again 
> in 6 hours. Try again in 12 hours. Try each day for several days. I 
> can't tell you the specifics but that's the idea.
>
>


Hmmmmm .... OK, so it sounds like there is a high probability that it 
will miss my next window of web availability. No problema, really, I did 
get several reports out, before it switched itself into auto-report 
mode. Any clue how to get it back into manual report mode (pop up a 
dialog & ask, every time) ? TIA ....


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