> I got to wondering if the queueing mechanism might be causing the problem
> (I was running sendmail as "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q10m"). I thought
> perhaps that when the queue clearning invoked, the 10-minutes-previous
> incarnation was still running, screwing up locks or somethng and
> duplicating any mail that poured in (ie, sending it to both processes).
> Or perhaps somethign else in there.
>
> So I reset sendmail to run as "/usr/lib/sendmail -bd -q45m".
If you have a long queue, my impression is that a 10-minute time is too
short. We use an hour. Somewhere in the sendmail docs (or in the
sendmail Nutshell Handbook) is a warning about too-short settings of -q.
Your mileage may vary, but yes, don't set your queue run time too short.
Please keep us (or me, at least!) in touch about what you find.
--Jerry Peek, jerry@ora.com
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