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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!darwin.sura.net!news-feed-2.peachnet.edu!concert!duke!news.duke.edu!sas!ajl From: ajl@mc.duke.edu (Arne J. Ludwig) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: SunOS 4.1 sendmail hangs on certain messag Message-ID: <18169@news.duke.edu> Date: 24 Jul 93 08:14:08 GMT References: <MUTS.93Jul23103234@compi.hobby.nl> Sender: news@news.duke.edu Reply-To: ajl@orion.mc.duke.edu Organization: Imaging Physics Lab Lines: 11 Nntp-Posting-Host: sas.mc.duke.edu 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. --- Arne Ludwig Duke University Medical Center ajl@orion.mc.duke.edu