Earlier I wrote:
> Mail seems to be successfully delivered, but then processes grind to a
> halt, and the machine actually crashes. Upon rebooting, the machine
> dies again during the boot process, and rebooting a third time it died
> at the login prompt. Only after the fourth reboot does it seem to
> recover.
Some points of clarification:
1) The mail was not successfully delivered. To be more accurate the
SMTP connection
was successfully terminated.
2) The workaround was to take qmail out of the boot scripts, clear the
queue, and then restart.
Also, we know that you can put limits on the message size, but we've
decided that that would not be a good solution, as it is sometimes
required that people send large messages. So, barring that option, is
there some reason that qmail kills the machine? Or, more to the point,
is there a way to *prevent* qmail from killing the system?
Matt Callaway
