Lock Type Question

[Greg Matthews]

Daniel Straka wrote:
> Is it OK to have the "Lock Type =" configuration option uncommented and
> blank?
> I've been getting a lot of the following messages in the mail log and
> was
> wondering if this might be related.
> Jan  4 08:32:47 mail sendmail-in[2531]: rejecting connections on daemon
> MTA: 15 children, max 15
> 

this is nothing to do with the lock type (nothing to do with MailScanner 
at all). You sendmail MTA is refusing connections because it is 
configured for a maximum number of child process and that maximum has 
been reached. This is fairly obvious from the log.

GREG

> Thanks,
> 
> Dan Straka
> Systems Coordinator
> Casper College
> 307.268.2399
> 
> 
> 
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