Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10T20:51:40Z

"Richard B. Johnson" wrote:
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> It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of
> all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they
> expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending
> it. I always thought you could read from a file, then write to
> a socket. Maybe I'm old fashioned.
>
> Cheers,
> Dick Johnson
>

Claus,

Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and
OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken.
Reading an entire file into memory must be a BSD feature. I have
enabled an SSH account for you, so you can come in and debug. Richard
also can get in and will be helping.

Jeff