first a little background on our setup, there are two machines crow and
sloth. sloth is the external host, basically acting as a mail filter
for incoming mail. crow is the internal host which actually handles
local deliveries , and outgoing mail.
under a situation where i create around a thousand mail messages each
with its' own SMTP connect, the mail is delivered ok. however if i dump
around a thousand messages down via one connect have problems.
once the the kernel file table on the internal host file table fills up
and starts deferring messsages with the following errors:
1997-12-09 15:29:14 SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT TO:
<foob@???>: host crow.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.172]: 451 Cannot check
<foob@???> at this time - please try later
1997-12-09 15:29:14 foob@???: remote_smtp transport deferred: SMTP
error from remote mailer after RCPT TO: <foob@???>: host
crow.cs.unm.edu [198.59.151.172]: 451 Cannot check <foob@???> at
this time - please try later
1997-12-09 15:34:26 foob@???: routing deferred: remote deliveries
being skipped
1997-12-09 15:44:26 foob@???: routing deferred: remote deliveries
being skipped
1997-12-09 15:54:26 foob@???: routing deferred: remote deliveries
being skipped
these messages just queue. They are never delivered and are removed after
4 days or so...
anyone have any ideas?
i call exim with sendmail -bd -qfl10m ...
anything else i should send in?
-steve
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