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Re: what is "unable to fork" email err message means?

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Subject: Re: what is "unable to fork" email err message means?
From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 23:01:59 +0530
In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0104042228090.865-100000@hanuman.aukbc.org>; from mksarav@mail.mitindia.edu on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 10:31:01PM +0530
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M K Saravanan rearranged electrons thusly:

> when one of my friend tried to send a mail to some yahoo ids., he got the
> following returned mail from mailer-daemon.  I am not able to understand these
> error messages.  Any Clue?
 
 Looks like Yahoo had a "temporary failure" for too long.  This unable to fork
 sounds like they had a full disk someplace (likely their mail spool)
 
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Suresh Ramasubramanian  <-->  mallet <at> efn <dot> org
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