Date: Tue, 30 Jun 1998 21:50:30 +1200 From: andrew@squiz.co.nz (Andrew McNaughton) To: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sendmail pipe failing Message-ID: <v02120d42b1be5c639a73@[192.168.1.2]>
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I have a perl script which regularly sends mail out to dynamically generated lists of up to several hundred people. I've moved it over to a freebsd machine and now have a problem. Probably more to do with my not having to deal with the details of sendmail in the past than it is to do with freebsd. My apologies if this puts it off topic. basically I'm getting failures in a perl command which goes: open (SENDMAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi") || die; runs fine for smaller deliveries, but dies on deliveries af about 250 recipients, which I'm splitting into separate mail messages of 30 recipients each. I suspect I'm running up against some limit that sendmail imposes to avoid taking too much system resources. There's plenty of cpu cycles to spare though (Server load well under 1). Is there a limit on the number of sendmail processes which will run concurrently? Any other ideas? Andrew McNaughton +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Andrew McNaughton andrew@squiz.co.nz http://www.newsroom.co.nz Some of you know what the Perl slogan on Windows is, ... "It's a good thing there's more than one way to do it, because most of them don't work." -- Larry Wall To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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