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10/09/2006, 02h05

On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:55:04 -0700, René Berber wrote:

>
> Steven W. Orr wrote:
>
>> I run linux/sendmail-8.13.8 at home to host my domain. Some domains will
>> not accept mail from me because my address is from a dynamic address pool
>> so I solved that problem by placing all of those domains in my mailertable
>> and now route those messages through my ISP. Recently I have noticed that
>> some of the mail is hanging for a while with 400 series messages saying
>> 'Too many connections'. I check with RCN and after many wated hours on
>> hold I found out that I need to limit the maximum number of connections to
>> their SMTP server to 4. Four shall be the counting. Five is too many and
>> six is right out!
>>
>> Can someone please tell me what the incantation is to limit the number of
>> simultaneous connections to a particular server?
>
> Not the best solution but from the TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS
> section in SendmailConfigFiles (a.k.a. cf/README):
>
> confSINGLE_THREAD_DELIVERY
>
> If this option and the
> HostStatusDirectory option are both
> set, single thread deliveries to other
> hosts. That is, don't allow any two
> sendmails on this host to connect
> simultaneously to any other single
> host.
>
> But something is strange in your system, sendmail usually sends all the
> messages to one host over one connection... perhaps it is different if
> you have a lot of messages (I don't think so but I'm not sure), you
> could control that with the queue run time. My guess is that you
> changed some of the default parameters and now they've come back and
> bit you.

I see your point but I really don't think I've done anything weird. On the
off chance that I did something weird, I put my sendmail.mc and
mailertable at

http://steveo.syslang.net/sendmail.mc
http://steveo.syslang.net/mailertable

Does this ?

10/09/2006, 02h05	#3
Steven W. Orr Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: 'Too many connections' problem On Sat, 09 Sep 2006 17:55:04 -0700, René Berber wrote: > > Steven W. Orr wrote: > >> I run linux/sendmail-8.13.8 at home to host my domain. Some domains will >> not accept mail from me because my address is from a dynamic address pool >> so I solved that problem by placing all of those domains in my mailertable >> and now route those messages through my ISP. Recently I have noticed that >> some of the mail is hanging for a while with 400 series messages saying >> 'Too many connections'. I check with RCN and after many wated hours on >> hold I found out that I need to limit the maximum number of connections to >> their SMTP server to 4. Four shall be the counting. Five is too many and >> six is right out! >> >> Can someone please tell me what the incantation is to limit the number of >> simultaneous connections to a particular server? > > Not the best solution but from the TWEAKING CONFIGURATION OPTIONS > section in SendmailConfigFiles (a.k.a. cf/README): > > confSINGLE_THREAD_DELIVERY > > If this option and the > HostStatusDirectory option are both > set, single thread deliveries to other > hosts. That is, don't allow any two > sendmails on this host to connect > simultaneously to any other single > host. > > But something is strange in your system, sendmail usually sends all the > messages to one host over one connection... perhaps it is different if > you have a lot of messages (I don't think so but I'm not sure), you > could control that with the queue run time. My guess is that you > changed some of the default parameters and now they've come back and > bit you. I see your point but I really don't think I've done anything weird. On the off chance that I did something weird, I put my sendmail.mc and mailertable at http://steveo.syslang.net/sendmail.mc http://steveo.syslang.net/mailertable Does this ?