[Mailman-Developers] FYI -- problems with my newinstall...

[Chuq Von Rospach]

At 3:28 PM -0600 10/30/00, Dan A. Dickey wrote:
>
>I'm not sure if this is relevant or not, but I did report some time
>ago a problem in python's smtplib.py that leaked fd's, and brought
>about a bug in MailList.py (Mailman 1.1).
>As far as I'm aware, this bug was not fixed in Mailman's copy of
>smtplib.py,
>nor in the new version of Python.  It lost file descriptors when
>sendmail
>quit accepting connections due to too high of a load.
>	-Dan

and when you run out of fd's, you get an error attempting to connect 
and exit. I'll bet that's it, Dan.

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