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

Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10T22:10:22Z

Then perhaps qmail's time has finally come .... If sendmail cannot run
on a machine with minimal background loading from a dozen or so FTP
clients downloading files, it's clearly sick. BTW. I have another box
running qmail, and it doesn't have these problems.

Jeff

Neil W Rickert wrote:
>
> "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org> wrote:
>
> >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA
> >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are
> >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels. You may want them cranked
> >up to 100 or something if you want sendmail to always work.
>
> If a modern Linux kernel requires high load average defaults, I will
> stop using Linux.
>
> -NWR