On Sun, 3 Jun 2001, Russell Nelson wrote:
> Sure. You may *wish* to do something about it, but it's not required.
> While those 10,000 spam messages are sitting in your queue (on
> average, 434 per directory; a reasonable size for a directory on ufs
> or e2fs), new emails will continue to be received and sent.
Perhaps I should have been more specific: when I said ``clogged'' I meant
the queue had run out of disk space and no new messages could be injected.
(To make things better, it was even impossible to inject bounces.)
And no, this is not a speculation. It happened to me.
> Visualize sendmail with a 10,000 message queue. Or rather, don't,
> unless you wish to spoil an otherwise beautiful Sunday night / Monday
> morning.
Was that supposed to scare me? Once upon a time, I spent a week modifying
Sendmail's code! :)
--Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ]
"Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
