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diff --git a/contrib/sendmail/doc/op/op.me b/contrib/sendmail/doc/op/op.me index 72bec041ebf81..3f4f0a58cefbd 100644 --- a/contrib/sendmail/doc/op/op.me +++ b/contrib/sendmail/doc/op/op.me @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ .\" the sendmail distribution. .\" .\" -.\" $Id: op.me,v 8.704 2005/02/01 00:40:57 ca Exp $ +.\" $Id: op.me,v 8.708 2005/11/12 02:08:04 ca Exp $ .\" .\" eqn op.me | pic | troff -me .\" @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@ Sendmail, Inc. .de Ve Version \\$2 .. -.Ve $Revision: 8.704 $ +.Ve $Revision: 8.708 $ .rm Ve .sp For Sendmail Version 8.13 @@ -1475,6 +1475,18 @@ option, so that it may be shared between several invocations of .i sendmail . This allows mail to be queued immediately or skipped during a queue run if there has been a recent failure in connecting to a remote machine. +Note: information about a remote system is stored in a file +whose pathname consists of the components of the hostname in reverse order. +For example, the information for +.b host.example.com +is stored in +.b com./example./host . +For top-level domains like +.b com +this can create a large number of subdirectories +which on some filesystems can exhaust some limits. +Moreover, the performance of lookups in directory with thousands of entries +can be fairly slow depending on the filesystem implementation. .pp Additionally enabling .b SingleThreadDelivery @@ -7282,6 +7294,16 @@ will refuse connections when it has more than .i N children processing incoming mail or automatic queue runs. This does not limit the number of outgoing connections. +If the default +.b DeliveryMode +(background) is used, then +.i sendmail +may create an almost unlimited number of children +(depending on the number of transactions and the +relative execution times of mail receiption and mail delivery). +If the limit should be enforced, then a +.b DeliveryMode +other than background must be used. If not set, there is no limit to the number of children -- that is, the system load averaging controls this. .ip MaxHeadersLength=\fIN\fP @@ -9086,7 +9108,7 @@ For example, .)b is equivalent to .(b --H ldap://server.example.com:389/dc=example,dc=com +-H ldap://server.example.com:389 -b dc=example,dc=com .)b If the LDAP library supports it, the LDAP URI format however can also request LDAP over SSL by using @@ -9095,13 +9117,13 @@ instead of .b ldap:// . For example: .(b -O LDAPDefaultSpec=-H ldaps://ldap.example.com/dc=example,dc=com +O LDAPDefaultSpec=-H ldaps://ldap.example.com -b dc=example,dc=com .)b Similarly, if the LDAP library supports it, It can also be used to specify a UNIX domain socket using .b ldapi:// : .(b -O LDAPDefaultSpec=-H ldapi://socketfile/dc=example,dc=com +O LDAPDefaultSpec=-H ldapi://socketfile -b dc=example,dc=com .)b .ip "\-b\fIbase\fP" LDAP search base. @@ -11317,7 +11339,7 @@ replace it with a blank sheet for double-sided output. .\".sz 10 .\"Eric Allman .\".sp -.\"Version $Revision: 8.704 $ +.\"Version $Revision: 8.708 $ .\".ce 0 .bp 3 .ce |