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David Ford wrote:

David,

We got to the bottom of it.  sendmail is using a BSD method to react to
load average which is different than what linux is providing.  You have
to crank up

O QueueLA = 18
O RefuseLA = 12 

on a busy Linux server since the defaults will result in large emails
never getting sent.  

Jeff
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