Hi,
yes u can limit the maximum connections in sendmail there is an option
in sendmail.cf as..
O MaxDaemonChildren=
usually commented to allow maximum connections..
uncommect it and specify it.
( Not sure of syntax)
Regards
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Ambar Roy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, July 4, 2003 2:08 am
Subject: [ilugd] Sendmail spawning lots of processes and bringing down
machine
> Hi everyone,
> Is there any way to limit the number of processes sendmail
> spawns? On a
> Linux server I am administering, sendmail spawns upto 1500
> processes. How
> can I stop this? Also is there any way to discard messages with
> more than a
> set number of recipients in the mail? In this particullar server
> some idiot
> is trying to send mails with 3200+ recipients and that tends to
> bring down
> my server :( This fellow is going to get a good piece of my mind
> next time
> he complains about bad services. I know that with qmail this is
> quite easy
> to do, but I could not figure out anything about sendmail.
>
> Ambar Roy
> PS: I need to run sendmail on this server and can't switch to
> qmail, postfix
> or some other mailer daemon!
>
>
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