[Mimedefang] Reserved Connections from Loopback

[David F. Skoll]

Steffen Kaiser wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Aug 2006, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:

>> Specifically, I am trying to solve an issue where Mailman is trying to
>> send out mail, the sendmail connections are maxed, and mailman then
>> ceases processing of the out qfiles until I restart mailman.

> I had such Mailman problem as well, the mailing list didn't helped. I
> now check the running state twice a day and restart Mailman, if the
> queue runner is missing. However, it didn't happened for about one year
> now.

Can you not configure Mailman to invoke Sendmail in deferred mode
("sendmail -odd ...") so the mail just goes into the clientmqueue and gets
picked up by the next clientmqueue run?

Regards,

David.