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Anyway to cut back on sendmail retrys if smtp is not available? I get messages such as: 
retrying in 1 seconds...
retrying in 1 seconds...

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and want to just have 1 retry. Basically I want it to stop trying sooner than it is doing now. Where and what can I add to my mail to do this?? 
   my %mailnotif = ( To      => 'toname@where.com',
                          From    => 'fromname@where.com',
                          Subject => "info",
                          Message => "stuff here.",
                         );
        $mailnotif{smtp} = '111.111.11.111';
        sendmail(%mailnotif) || die "\nProblem! $Mail::Sendmail::error
+\n";

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Re: Cutting back retry attempts
by Taulmarill (Deacon) on Oct 09, 2003 at 14:32 UTC
    RTFM,
    here is the part you are interested in:
    %Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg

This hash contains all configuration options. You normally edit it onc
+e (if ever) in Sendmail.pm and forget about it, but you could also ac
+cess it from your scripts. For readability, I'll assume you have impo
+rted it.

The keys are not case-sensitive: they are all converted to lowercase b
+efore use. Writing $mailcfg{Port} = 2525; is OK: the default $mailcfg
+{port} (25) will be deleted and replaced with your new value of 2525.
.
.
.
$mailcfg{retries}

    $mailcfg{retries} = 1;

    How many times should the connection to the same SMTP server be re
+tried in case of a failure.

    Default: 1;

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