"Too many users" message from sendmail

From: Chua Koon Teck <koonteck_at_staff.singnet.com.sg>
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 14:20:26 +0800 (SST)

Hi

I am running DU3.2d on a AlphaServer 8400 with sendmail 8.7.5. We have
recently migrated the /var/spool/mail from advfs to ufs because of
performance problem with advfs. We have about 40,000 mailbox in the
/var/spool/mail directory.

Recently, we are experiencing bounce mail from sendmail about "Too many
users" error message which is shown below.

Does anyone has experience this message from sendmail ? How can we solve
this problem ?

Thank you in advance.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:24:45 +0800 (SST)
From: Mail Delivery Subsystem <MAILER-DAEMON_at_singnet.com.sg>
To: postmaster_at_merlion.singnet.com.sg
Subject: Returned mail: Service unavailable

The original message was received at Fri, 28 Jun 1996 00:24:45 +0800 (SST)
from localhost

   ----- The following addresses have delivery notifications -----
<dmjjlims_at_singnet.com.sg> (unrecoverable error)

   ----- Transcript of session follows -----
binmail: opening /usr/spool/mail/dmjjlims -: Too many users
Mail saved in dead.letter
554 <dmjjlims_at_singnet.com.sg>... Service unavailable
Received on Fri Jun 28 1996 - 08:41:11 NZST

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