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From: eric@MONET.BERKELEY.EDU (Eric Allman)
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Subject: Re: failed mail from DCP
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Date: Mon, 7-Jul-86 23:40:53 EDT
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Re:
> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 86 09:42 EDT
> From: Joseph R Goldstone <joseph@sapsucker.scrc.symbolics.com>
> Subject: failed mail from DCP

> 	....
> Someone at a 4.2bsd site told me this "enforcement" took the form of many,
> many sendmail processes going into hard loops, pushing the load average up
> around 13 and chewing up more than 90% of the machine.  The loopy processes
> have to be shot.  He wasn't happy about it.

> - -- joseph

I checked this on sendmail, and can't seem to get it to take offense
to spaces after a "MAIL From:" command.  If this is true, I would like
to see some more details.

eric