[imp] imp, sendmail and swap space?

[Jon Parise]

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 10:44:35PM -0400, Liam Hoekenga wrote:

> We're getting messages from people complaining that our IMP installation
> is occasionally eating their mail.  It doesn't appear to the be the
> sendmail error 64 / 67 problem that I'd hoped it was (and have added code
> to track).
> 
> Do you guys think this could be an issue w/ swap?  If it can't spawn a
> new process when it tries to invoke sendmail?

I suppose that's possible.  You could try using SMTP-based delivery
instead of invoking sendmail directly.  If that solves your problem,
then the sendmail situation is to blame.
 
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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Information Technology (2001)
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member