--- "John R. Levine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Qmail backs off very well, but doesn't work all that well with
> sendmail under heavy load. The problem is that sendmail keeps
> accepting connections even when it doesn't have enough system
> resources to accept mail, and tends to thrash to death.
well - it's VERY misconfigured sendmail ;)
> (Qmail
> systems usually use tcpserver which enforces a maximum number
> of
> simultaneous connections rejecting any beyond that limit.)
> But since
> sendmail doesn't reject connections, qmail can't tell that the
> recipient system isn't responding.
It rejects, really
> Sendmail users tend to assume that anything sendmail does must
> be
> right, and anything different must be wrong, so they often
> blame qmail
> for opening "too many" connections. In reality, the
> connections could
> just as easily come from any other mail system, of course.
I'm not sure how qmail works if you are sending 100 messages
from server to another one.
Does it open 100 connections concurrently?
---
Oleg
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