----- Original Message ----- From: "Joshua Graham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 12, 2004 11:58 AM Subject: [Mimedefang] Getting rid of "Please try again later"
> My Mimedefang relay has been crashing a lot lately, mostly due to the huge > load it's carrying. I'm still trying to optimize it to make it a little > more stable but in the meantime I'd like this error to stop. > > [...] > > Any ideas? Also, I can't find any docs on command line options for > MimeDefang. Is there anyway to limit the max clients? Cause when a surge > of mail comes in (every reboot :P) it spawns about 6 or 7 then runs out of > resources and dies. Use sendmail to limit resource consumption. You can configure sendmail to limit the number of active SMTP connections, and you can also configure sendmail to begin refusing connections if the load (as reported by 'uptime') exceeds a certain value. Chris Myers Networks By Design _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

