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I've gotten a number of replies on my sendmail posting. Thanks to all
who responded. From what I've gathered it appears that the problem is
not with sendmail itself, but is a manifestation of a problem on
part of the Internet.   There is a gateway which is clobering packets
greater than about 1k. This would cause sendmail to hang when
attempting to deliver messages > 1k because the packets with the message
couldn't get through. I'm not sure which hosts this affects, but the
problem is being worked on. 

On a related note phil@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu  mentions:
>I have been seeing this happen occaisionally on several hosts receiving mail
>>from IBM VM SMTP.  Some cases have been verified as having well over 100
>destination addresses, one per line, in the RFC822 To: field.  Attempts to
>send the same mail to other hosts running sendmail 5.61 also resulted in
>sendmail getting hung.  Another version of sendmail delivered the mail, but
>inserted a blank line after the 100 or so To: addresses it was parsing.

There is a problem in sendmail v5.61 that causes it to hang on
large headers (such as a large To: field). The problem and a fix were
posted on comp.bugs.4bsd. If anyone is interested in it let me know.



	Doug Tiarks
	UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div.

	Internet: doug@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
	UUCP: {uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!doug


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	Doug Tiarks
	UW-Milwaukee Computing Services Div.

	Internet: doug@csd4.milw.wisc.edu
	UUCP: {uwvax, uwmacc}!uwmcsd1!doug