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too many sendmail processes ?

2004-01-15 05:46:22
Mark Tranchant wrote:

Justin Mason wrote:

5) /etc/aliases contains

  addr: "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi newaddress(_at_)example(_dot_)com"

to send the msg with a new envelope-from; bounces will go back to the

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I think I've 
been bitten by a bug involving the use by my Tagspam program:

http://copsewood.net/tagspam/index.html

of this  approach. If your system gets
very busy, and has a cap on the number of simultaneous
sendmail processes allowed, then if the new sendmail process
being started here takes your system over this cap the attempted
redirect will fail, and the message will bounce. 

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