Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11T00:31:51Z

David Ford wrote:

David,

We got to the bottom of it. sendmail is using a BSD method to react to
load average which is different than what linux is providing. You have
to crank up

O QueueLA = 18
O RefuseLA = 12

on a busy Linux server since the defaults will result in large emails
never getting sent.

Jeff