Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 06:06:57 +0900 (KST) From: Cocoja <cocoja@Sarang.NET> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sendmail processes Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96K.981108055554.17093B-100000@icebox.sarang.net> In-Reply-To: <19981107133403.A28977@emu.sourcee.com>
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On Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Norman C. Rice wrote: >> >> ... FreeBSD box has lots of sendmail processes.. >> ... >> My sendmail version is 8.9.1a, and I linked it with bind-8.1.2. > ^^^^^^ > This patch will force sendmail to parse every message for MIME > headers assuming you have something similar to the following. > > O MaxMimeHeaderLength=256/128 > > If you have a lot of mail activity, you can easily end up with > hundreds of sendmail processes launched. Did you ever see this > problem before you tried to protect Microsoft and Netscape mailers > from shooting themselves in the foot? > > IMO it is _not_ sendmail's job to fix bug's in broken MUAs. > -- > Regards, > Norman C. Rice, Jr. I downgraded my sendmail from 8.9.1a to 8.9.1. (including sendmail.cf) But the processes are still stacking up. What I've exprienced is the name server's traffic is also growing up as the number of such sendmail processes are increasing. $ ps ax 13719 ?? S 0:00.13 sendmail: startup with 203.241.192.9 (sendmail) 13763 ?? S 0:00.13 sendmail: startup with 203.241.192.9 (sendmail) 13801 ?? S 0:00.11 sendmail: startup with 203.241.192.9 (sendmail) 13835 ?? S 0:00.10 sendmail: startup with 203.241.192.9 (sendmail) .. more and more .. -- CoCoJa <cocoja@sarang.net> Dum vivimus, vivamus. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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