Re: smail problem: file table overflow

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

> 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.

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