BUG? File descriptor use in cmd_append (for MULTIAPPEND) results in many open files

Benn Oshrin benno at columbia.edu
Mon Dec 11 12:49:35 EST 2006


--On 11 December 2006 10:07:46 AM -0500 Nik Conwell <nik at bu.edu> wrote:

| Or, do people not use mailutil and instead use something that issues
| multiple append commands rather than a single append with multiple e-
| mails?

For our transition, we used a modified version of mailutil that (among 
other things) performs one append per message.

| Do people just tweak their kernels to have some insane number of FDs
| available in order to compensate for this?

We did that, too.

-Benn-



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