Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail crash

["Kevin D" <kdlists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this advice, it worked great. I changed the timeout to 10m and
upped the maxdaemonchildren to 20. Then I tried a bunch of telnet
connections to port 25 and let them sit there along with my email server's
normal load... the server cleaned up all the dead connections within 10
minutes, and sendmail stayed up!

Kevin

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Booher Jr" <ebooher@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 17, 2000 3:39 PM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] sendmail crash


> Kevin,
>
> How new is this RaQ3i?  My company just installed two new RaQ3i's
> and they have been in production roughly two months.  We had a
> tough time of it at first where sendmail died on a regular
> basis.  Regular enough I wrote a shell script to restart it.  As
> we happened to find out, the default configuration sets the time
> out of a piece of spooled mail to 60 minutes.  It's possible that
> each of those failed 137Kb files were sitting there for an hour
> each waiting for their completion.  Check your sendmail
> configuration files and make sure that the time outs for spooling
> are set to 10 minutes, or less.
>
> Ed Booher
> Network Engineer
> One Call Internet
> http://www.onecall.net/
>