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Sendmail 5.61 hangs reading message

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From: Kevin Crowston
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 1989 16:43
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I'm running sendmail 5.61 under AU/X 1.1.  Periodically I find a few
sendmail processes have hung reading a message.  Typically I see in
the ps listing the original sendmail and a few others (usually 1,
sometimes more) with CPU times in the tens (sometimes hundreds) of
minutes.  mailq shows an entry for these messages, but usually there's
no control file yet.  netstat shows there's a connection but it's
usually marked as CLOSE_WAIT or something like that.

I've just been killing these processes and rm'ing the queue files, but
I'd really prefer to fix rather than work around the problem.  I
thought I saw something posted about this, but now I can't find it.
Does anyone know the solution?

Kevin Crowston
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From: crowston@athena.mit.edu (Kevin Crowston)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,comp.unix.aux
Subject: Sendmail 5.61 hangs reading message
Message-ID: <1989Dec14.164302.9962@athena.mit.edu>
Date: 14 Dec 89 16:43:02 GMT
Sender: root@athena.mit.edu (Wizard A. Root)
Reply-To: crowston@athena.mit.edu (Kevin Crowston)
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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