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Date:      Wed, 16 Feb 2000 18:37:51 -0500
From:      Jim Weeks <jim@siteplus.com>
To:        Stuart Henderson <sthen@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>
Cc:        aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au>, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: file descriptors / table is full
Message-ID:  <38AB34CF.3F77D776@siteplus.com>
References:  <20000216190401.A27835@comcen.com.au> <38AABD24.8E54462B@siteplus.com> <20000217093421.D27835@comcen.com.au> <20000216223846.J77186@naiad.eclipse.net.uk>

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Why not
kill sendmail
cd /var
mv -Rp /var/mail /usr/mail
ln -s /usr/mail mail
restarts sendmail


Stuart Henderson wrote:

> Kill sendmail, create multiple queue directories, move files
> arbitrarily so you don't have too many msgs in any one queue,
> run multiple sendmail processes to drain the alternative q's
> "sendmail -q30m -OQueueDirectory=/var/spool/mqueue.1"
>
> It's well worth your while installing Postfix, Exim and Qmail
> on a test machine and see if you feel happier with any of them.
> In most situations, they're better able to handle heavy mail
> load than Sendmail.



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