Sending a large number of mails causing problems on CentOS 6 / Plesk 10

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Published on 2012-09-28T09:46:47Z Indexed on 2012/11/30 17:07 UTC
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I have a VPS running CentOS 6. When the system tries to send daily newsletter, after some time (e.g. after sending about 2000 emails), I get error "Unable to send mail" and the system memory goes really high. Till this moment, the mails are delivered normally.

The rest symptoms are:

  1. I cannot see anything on /var/log/maillog (File seems not to be written)

  2. All files on /var/spool/mail have 0 bytes size.

  3. From time to time on httpd log I get errors like: /usr/sbin/sendmail: error while loading shared libraries: libc.so.6: cannot open shared object file: Error 23

"Activate mail service on domain" setting in Plesk is deactivated.

Any idea on what's going wrong here?

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