I'm having problems when I send mails, using sendmail...., where I work, we usually send newsletters (thousands of mails actually) and when that happens, my machine (wich is the one that sends those mails) has a load average of 60!!!!....., doing a top shows a lot of "modprobe"'s in there...., and I thinks that's part of what's killing my box...

so, is there a way to make sendmail not slowdown my computer every time that happens???

Or is there another program that would send the emails in a more efficient way?, I heard something about "qmail"....., what is it?, will it solve my dilema?

thanks in advance...
Oh, FYI, i'm using mandrake 9.2....

Is this a new computer (did you have another os on it before mandrake?
If you had soething else on it and it was fine, I have no idea.
Otherwise, tell me the prosser (i686 --> or 1586 <--)

The OS previously installed here was WinXP, so no, it had no linux before..., and the machine is not a bad one...., I have a celeron 1. somthing..., and 256mb of ram... (I thinks, I'm not sure where to find this info.....)

But I don't think it's a problem of the machine..., every time more than.., say 200 mails, are being send at the same time, if I do a "top" i see a lot of "modprobe" process running.....and quite a lot of "sendmail" process too....

So..., any idea????

a) You used some M$ Windows mail server?
b) Did you update your sendmail (is it the sendmail that came with Mandrake?)
Ok, I am not great with Mandrake but... Check the Mandrake 9.0 bugs
Hope I helped!

The sendmail I use is the 8.12.9...., the only bug I could find is one that says It can lead to stack and structure overflow....., but only if exploited...., and this is not the case....

Any other ideas???

Thanks for your help....