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From: ajl@mc.duke.edu (Arne J. Ludwig)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 sendmail hangs on certain messag
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Date: 24 Jul 93 08:14:08 GMT
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muts@compi.hobby.nl (Peter Mutsaers) writes: 
> on our email server often several sendmail processes are running for a
> long time, using CPU. I have to kill them then.
> 
> It seems that some addresses in the mail queue trigger this, but I
> couldn't find out which exatcly.

I had this problem with addresses containg :: as used in DECnet. I didn't
bother to look at the sendmail.cf to figure out what caused it.
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Arne Ludwig	Duke University Medical Center		ajl@orion.mc.duke.edu