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Date:      Tue, 24 Oct 2000 13:17:19 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        Fabiana <morgana@telocity.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Strange sendmail behavior
Message-ID:  <20001024131719.A365@gray.westgate.gr>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231425480.776-100000@Angel.telocity.com>; from morgana@telocity.com on Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:31:41PM -0400
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010231425480.776-100000@Angel.telocity.com>

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On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 02:31:41PM -0400, Fabiana wrote:
> 
> I don't even know how to describe what Sendmail is doing, but there
> is the output I get when I run ps aux, there are a number of sendmail
> processes running that I can't explain. At first I thought the problem
> might be a combination of Fetchmail and Sendmail not working happily
> together. Now I am not sure. I tried to disable sendmail, but then,
> Fetchmail refused to retrieve my email. I am not sure what I can do
> about it, so I would apreciate any input:

From the output included in your mail I cannot see the rest of the
command line.  It's probably `sendmail: server load too high' or
something like that.

> root    520  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root    525  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root    531  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
> root    536  0.0  1.4  1704  848  ??  I     1:34PM   0:00.03 sendmail: server l
[...]

Try sending the output of

    % ps xaw

You probably have a lot of outgoing mail accumulating in your outgoing
queue, because of an error in your setup.  With a large queue, you will
see many sendmail processes.


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