>> 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
When running with the options below I get several
LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC
virtual_aliases director: failed to open
/usr/local/exim/virtual-domains/<thedomain><.tld>
for linear search: Too many open files
webmaster@<thedomain><.tld> cannot be resolved at this time;
>exim -d -bt infomail
>
>to see if it does the routing correctly? This might give a clue as to
>where this error is occurring.
Setting queue_run_max to a value like 20 (instead of 5) does not seem to
change anything.
>It seems a perfectly reasonable way to send mail to 500 recipients.
Do you need to get more infos?
Thanks in advance!
Kind regards,
Sascha Pollok
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