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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.idt.net!mr.net!news.mid.net!sbctri.tri.sbc.com!newspump.wustl.edu!fas-news.harvard.edu!fas!brady From: brady@fas.harvard.edu (Dave Brady) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: sendmail vs. qmail Followup-To: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.mail.smail,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Date: 15 Dec 1996 13:58:21 GMT Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Lines: 22 Message-ID: <59105t$mge@decaxp.harvard.edu> References: <57tf61$gq7@raven.eva.net> <1996Dec1005.15.53.2968@koobera.math.uic.edu> <SHALUNOV.96Dec13131524@math.wisc.edu> <58vgks$332@nntp1.best.com> <1996Dec1504.00.21.25291@koobera.math.uic.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: fas.harvard.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.mail.sendmail:35217 comp.mail.smail:2719 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32641 D. J. Bernstein (djb@koobera.math.uic.edu) wrote: <stuff deleted> : sendmail also fails when the queue gets too big. When AOL went down, one : qmail host was reported happily dealing with a 2000-message queue, while : sendmail hosts were dying left and right with smaller queues. See issues : 18.30 and 18.31 of the RISKS Digest. <rest of post deleted> We had a failure of our (sendmail 8.8.4) mailhub here, and the backup SMTP machine (same sendmail) developed a queue with 9047 messages. Once the mailhub came back up, delivery was completed within two hours. -- Dave Brady FAS Computer Services Sr UNIX Sys Admin/Programmer Harvard University brady@fas.harvard.edu LL1A Science Center Phone: (617) 495-1273 1 Oxford Street FAX: (617) 495-1210 Cambridge, MA 02138