Re: [cobalt-developers] Replacing sendmail

[Jeff Lasman <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert G. Fisher" wrote:

> As for giving you an answer, you really haven't given nearly enough
> information about what the current condition is when sendmail goes
> to rejecting connections.

Actually, I have, but not on this list.  I posted top, ps-aux and mqueue
info on several other lists, and have yet to get a definitive answer; I
really didn't think this was the right list for the discussion; I only
mentioned it in passing.

I've not found any documentation on rejecting; the box wasn't that busy
at the time, although there was lots of email in the queue waiting to go
out.  The curiosity was that a large number of outgoing messages would
cause the incoming daemon to stop.  To me, that just doesn't seem right.

We plan on solving the problem temporarily by throttling the outgoing
list to 500 pcs/hour.  A long term solution will most likely be to build
a mailserver specifically for the list mail, perhaps using postfix,
perhaps something else.

Maybe I wasn't too clear; this isn't for one of my systems; it's a
problem with a customer system.  What we're willing to do is tempered by
what the client is willing to pay for.

Thanks for your input.

Jeff
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