slightly OT Sendmail question

Brett Geer brett at BRABYS.CO.ZA
Wed Oct 16 07:37:12 IST 2002


insane... your box would die a miserable death... better would be to up
the number of connections sendmail permits

brett

On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 19:23, Thomas DuVally wrote:
> Hi All,
>         I have a silly question concerning sendmail.  I'm using mailscanner,
> but that's not really an issue in this instance.
>
> Lets say, hypothetically, someone set the sendmail to run like this:
>
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q15s
>
> So that the queue would be hit every 15 seconds, and the server was
> pretty high volume.  University level, hypothetically.
>
> Would that cause mail delay? Or no effect? Or something else.
> --
> Tom DuVally
> Lead Sys. Programmer
> CIS, Brown University
>
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