[6742] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Sendmail bringing system to a halt.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David L. Martin)
Fri Nov 29 22:38:37 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 22:36:26 -0500 (EST)
From: "David L. Martin" <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
To: "Lincoln L. Bauer" <lbauer1@sirus.com>
cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <199611300139.UAA01783@sirus.com>
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On Fri, 29 Nov 1996, Lincoln L. Bauer wrote:
> One of dial-in customers sent a 50mb email message. It ended up having
> to sit in the mailq and every time sendmail tried to send it, the hard
> drive started thrashing and the machine ground to a halt. Is this
> normal? It seems like sendmail would have some protection against
> grabbing the entire system like it did. Do I have something configured
> wrong? Aside from this sendmail has been running fine.
I see an option in the sendmail.cf file to set the maximum file size.
David L. Martin <dlmarti@pluto.njcc.com>
R&D Software Engineer <dlmarti@accusort.com>
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