smail problem: file table overflow

[Joey Hess <joey@kite.preferred.com>]

>From /var/log/smail/paniclog:

09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/logfile:
File table overflow

09/29/96 09:09:44: [m0v7Hse-000Cu6C] cannot open /var/log/smail/paniclog:
File table overflow

>From /var/log/messages:

Sep 29 05:09:30 kite kernel: Unable to load interpreter
Sep 29 05:09:33 kite last message repeated 2 times

At 5 in the morning, my system sends out some 300 email messages.. I think
smail ran out of file handles or something. I believe another casulty of
this was the cron daemon, which died at about the same time. I'm running
debian 1.1.9, linux 2.0.21.

Is smail suited to handling the load I'm subjecting it to? Maybe I should
change MTA's..

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