> however, once my PPP connection went down, smail suddenly couldn't > resolve any hostnames, and suddenly flooded the mail queue with all > the remaining messages, going so fast that it eventually ran out of > process table entries (i think!). > > my solution was to change my invocation of smail to include the `-Q' > flag, which tells smail to simply queue the message and not deliver it > immediately. this seemed to work fine -- smail happily queued the > messages and started delivering them at the next queue interval.
I guess I'll try that. This makes me even more concerned about smail's suitability for medium-to-heavy email traffic, though. -- #!/usr/bin/perl -lisubstr($_,39+38*sin++$y/9,2)=$s # [EMAIL PROTECTED] for($s=' '||McQ;$_='JOEY HESS 'x8;print){eval$^I} # Joey Hess "How appropriate, you fight like a cow." - - Guybrush Threepwood -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]