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SubjectRe: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote:

[Please use a MTA that sends the e-mail only once to a given machine,
we got three copies of this]

> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and
> > > OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken.
> >
> > Sorry, this is plain wrong. sendmail does NOT read the entire
> > file into memory.
>
> Does sendmail use sendfile() ?

No. Just do a grep on the source code.

I suspect that procmail is used which actually used to load
the entire mail into memory.
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