Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Change the Queue Runner Interval in Sendmail

SkyHi @ Wednesday, August 10, 2011
The default in CentOS 5.x is 1 hour:
# pgrep -lf "Queue runner"
12443 sendmail: Queue runner@01:00:00 for /var/spool/clientmqueue
 
You can change it editing /etc/sysconfig/sendmail (ie. set 30 minutes):
DAEMON=yes
QUEUE=30m
 
It’s easy, isn’t it? Useful for mail backup MXs that may need shorter queue run times.

REFERENCES
http://rambleon.usebox.net/post/317857580/change-the-queue-runner-interval-in-sendmail