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

Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10T20:22:31Z

On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time
> sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's
> why the file never gets sent!

Sure that could be the case. You should be able to verify the kernel kills the
task with `dmesg`.

However Jeff said the problem happens over 400K and a 500K attachment shouldn't
really run any machine out of memory, so maybe this wasn't his same problem?

Andrea