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From: piet@cwi.nl (Piet Beertema)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: distribution list problems
Message-ID: <2379@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 18 Oct 90 11:31:39 GMT
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	>I maintain a mail list which contains approximately 100 people. Each
	>address on the list is a valid address and is able to receive mail,
	>yet when I send mail to the entire list only the first few members of
	>the list are sent the mail before sendmail core dumps. I have broken
	>the list up into smaller pieces and have been able to send to each
	>of the pieces without any problems.
I have the same problem and it has persisted from old sendmail
releases upto 5.64. More precisely the symptoms when a mailing
list gets too long are:
- If you're lucky, i.e. when a list is just a little bit too
  long, you'll get e.g. a message that dbm can't store an entry
  from that list and/or a complaint about a missing colon.
- If you're unlucky, i.e. when a list is really too long, sendmail
  (newaliases) will dump core somewhere further on in the aliases
  file (on a correct address!).

I haven't got a fix for this problem yet.

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	Piet Beertema, CWI, Amsterdam	(piet@cwi.nl)