[ic] Inconsistently unable to send with sendmail

Jon Jensen jon at endpoint.com
Fri Sep 15 18:01:34 EDT 2006


On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Peter wrote:

>> I have a catalog with occasionally is unable to send with sendmail.  I
>> don't know why this is.
>
> Sendmail is a bit flakey, use Net::SMTP instead.

Could you elaborate on that? In many years of using /usr/sbin/sendmail as 
a subprocess, I haven't found any version of it to have any reliability 
problems. The only trouble I'm aware of is Perl's signals problems with 
child processes, which aren't sendmail's fault.

Jon

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