On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 05:43:55PM -0800, Brad Dameron wrote:
>
> We had a gig queue and did a kill -ALRM on qmail-send and it still
> continued to grow. It looked like we had created some type of loop that was
> not deliverable and just growing. After we removed the queue and restarted
> everything seemed to go ok. Anyone else encounter this before?
>
Yes -- when the cause of the loop is external to the server in question.
Not every MTA behaves properly with loops (not to mention any names ;)
).
I once had a broken server loop up 4000 messages, and then an internal
user replied to all, which caused yet another loop (the broken server
had addresses in the 'reply to all' list. :( That took some time....
and ran the queue out of space...and DoS'd all our mail for an hour
while we downed the server, dequeued all the garbage, and put it back
up.
Never seen qmail do it to itself, tho.
--
Greg White
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent
revolution inevitable.
-- John F. Kennedy
