Sendmail 'Too many connections' problem

[Mark E. Mallett]

On Sat, Sep 09, 2006 at 08:58:40PM -0400, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> On Saturday, Sep 9th 2006 at 20:17 -0400, quoth Jeff Macdonald:
> 
> =>On 9/9/06, Steven W. Orr <steveo at syslang.net> wrote:
> =>
> =>> Can someone please tell me what the incantation is to limit the number of
> =>> simultaneous connections to a particular server?
> =>
> =>
> =>Try SingleThreadDelivery and HostStatusDirectory options.
> 
> I don't see how this helps. 

Me either, except a little.  Did you figure out a solution?

I'm kinda surprised that sendmail is making lots of connections when
running the queue.  OTOH... maybe it's making the connections when the
messages are being given to sendmail?  Perhaps you could try telling
it to queue everything and deliver out of the queue (DeliveryMode=q).

mm