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Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 21:21:56 +0100
From: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
To: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
Cc: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.1001110150021.5941A-100000@chaos.analogic.com>; from root@chaos.analogic.com on Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500
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On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time
> sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes.  That's
> why the file never gets sent!

Sure that could be the case. You should be able to verify the kernel kills the
task with `dmesg`.

However Jeff said the problem happens over 400K and a 500K attachment shouldn't
really run any machine out of memory, so maybe this wasn't his same problem?

Andrea
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