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From: Jim Ault
Date: Wed, 07 Feb 1990 15:50

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We have been running Sun's new sendmail.mx (4.0.3) for some time now
(5 or 6 months) without problem.  Just last week I installed the
latest sendmail.mx.sun3 from uunet on our mail gateway, after reading
the CERT advisory.  This week, we began encountering some very strange
sendmail behavior.  It was spawning new processes and creating null
queue files almost one per second, and our machine almost ground to a
halt.   Worse yet, I backed out the uunet sendmail binary, and went
back to the 4.0.3 binary, and the condition continues!  Is anyone else
experiencing similar problems with the new sendmail.mx.sun3 from uunet
(~ftp/sun-fixes)? 

I have also compiled sendmail.5.61 from berkeley on our Sun3, but with
very unpredictable and undesirable results.  I tried using it also,
but the same thing happened.

Any help would be most appreciated. 
Please reply by email to ault@pawl.rpi.edu, or
aultj@turing.cs.rpi.edu.  Or by phone (518) 276-2750.

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---Jim Ault, ITS Postmaster, Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst, Troy NY, 12180
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!ault
From: ault@its.rpi.edu (Jim Ault)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: Sun's new sendmail
Summary: sendmail.mx from uunet too slow, killing machine performance
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Date: 7 Feb 90 15:50:26 GMT
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Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY
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