Larry, Ken, I ran strace on lmtpd and noticed that it sticks with connecting to notify_unix socket. I recompiled it with-notify=no and it seems to work fine now (and much faster too :)
Ken, ignore last email with strace, it was all right (my fault) Nick -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Greenfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 22:37 To: Nick Ustinov; Ken Murchison Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: lmtpd locking continued Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 13:47:01 -0400 From: Ken Murchison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=538 > 250 2.1.0 ok > >>> RCPT To:<sb167407627200884> > 250 2.1.5 ok > >>> DATA > 354 go ahead > >>> . Hmm. This *should* have given you: 554 5.6.0 Message has no header/body separator No, no, Sendmail never shows the body of the message when it sends it. (Ok, maybe on really high debug levels, but not normally.) It sent a message between the DATA and the . > > strace shows it's read(7, Could you please check to see which file its trying to read from? Look for open(....) = 7. If the strace is gone, please trace a new connection. I think this was an strace of Sendmail, not an strace of lmtpd. I agree a trace of lmtpd and a gdb backtrace of where lmtpd is when this happens would be more helpful. Larry