Re: [EXIM] Panic-Problem

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Sascha Pollok
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [EXIM] Panic-Problem
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Sascha Pollok wrote:

> I am running Exim 1.90 on a SunOS 5.5. I tried to set a virtual alias like
> this:
>
> infomail:    :include:/root/mailing

>
> In this /root/mailing file are about 500 recipients, one per line.
> As I try to send a mail to infomail Exim sends out about 5-6 mails without
> problems and then aborts with a MAIN PANIC: Too many open files.


Is that *all* the error message? It doesn't look like a complete message
to me. Have you tried running

exim -d -bt infomail

to see if it does the routing correctly? This might give a clue as to
where this error is occurring.

> Any suggestions? OS problem?
> Other ways of sending a mail to 500 recipients?


It seems a perfectly reasonable way to send mail to 500 recipients.


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Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.



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