Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:14:43 +0100 (CET) | From | Igmar Palsenberg <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] |
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> > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > > it. I always thought you could read from a file, then write to > > a socket. Maybe I'm old fashioned.
Sending a 50 MB file is OK here. So it's not a TCP/IP bug.
> Claus, > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and > OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken. > Reading an entire file into memory must be a BSD feature. I have > enabled an SSH account for you, so you can come in and debug. Richard > also can get in and will be helping. > > Jeff
Igmar
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