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From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.64 hangs
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Date: 2 Jul 90 23:48:35 GMT
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In article <7852@ncar.ucar.edu>, woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) writes:
> after a while, all mail coming into the machine hangs.
> If I telnet to the SMTP port on one of these machines, I can type the HELO
> command, and RCPT To, and I never get a response to the RCPT TO command.

This is exactly the problem I run into on a DG AViiON, without even having
to wait a while :-(.  I haven't tracked it down yet, but my current theory
is that it's hanging in a flock() somewhere...

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Amanda Walker
InterCon Systems Corporation
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