Sendmail has a couple of options to limit load, specifically:-
Ox<load>
OX<load>
where <load> is a numeric load value (not sure if its fp,
but integer should be OK
The Ox option makes sendmail queue incoming stuff, the OX makes it refuse
incoming SMTP.
I guess this could be a bug in sendmail if stuff in one SMTP session is
all treated as per the load at the start of the session. If this is the
case then limiting the number of messages in one transaction will fix the
problem.
[Life of course could be more interesting - one well known mailer would
have 200 connections to you in parallel!]
Nigel.
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