Jake Colman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 05/25/2005 10:12:08 PM:
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> How can I limit the number of sendmails anyway? My server gets very
> overloaded in those circumstances. In general, what happens if there are
> more sendmails than there are spamd processes?
>
You can try confCONNECTION_RATE_THROTTLE or confMAX_DAEMON_CHILDREN. I believe that if sendmail doesn't get a response from your milter that calls spamd within the timeout period you specifed when defining the milter that it will bypass it, unless you told it to fail.
Andy
