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From: smart@manta.mel.dit.CSIRO.AU (Robert Smart)
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Subject: Re: Sendmail 5.6[45] WARNING
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Date: 11 Feb 91 22:03:48 GMT
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In article <2420@mcsun.eu.net> piet@NIC.EU.net (Piet Beertema) writes:
>
>Until now I haven't found what it is that is so basically
>wrong, so I still don't have a real patch for it either.
>Needless to say that I would appreciate any pointers (or
>better of course: a patch that really cures it!).
>
Me too. We find 5.6[45] of Sendmail behaves better if we don't
run the queue in daemon mode. I.e. we do sendmail -bd and run
the queue from crontab. But this is obviously a hack. [Mind you
I never quite understood why sendmail isn't run from inetd with
the queue run from cron: that would seem more unix style than
a monolithic program sitting there doing everything.]

Bob Smart