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From: tage@staff.cs.uit.no (Tage Stabell-Kuloe)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: MX, mail that gets stuck and deliver.c
Message-ID: <1991May16.231509.11210@mack.uit.no>
Date: 16 May 91 23:15:09 GMT
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Organization: University of Tromsoe, Norway
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I've installed sendmail 5.65b on my HP-UX 7.05 system. Most of the 
time it runs just fine, but from time to time the mail gets stuck.  
When I re-run the queue (or sendmail does it) the mail is sent as usual.

When the mail gets stuck, sendmail writes "Connecting to hostname
(mailer)", and then "stat=Deferred: Invalid argument".  If I have (say) 30
or 40 names in the address, the queue has to be run several times to get
the message sent to every adresee.

The problem (or more corrcet - the point where I don't understand) is here, 
in deliver.c, apx line 860

    st = stab(MxHosts[j], ST_HOST, ST_FIND);
    if (st == NULL || st->s_host.ho_exitstat == EX_OK) {
	if (j > 0)
	    message(Arpa_Info,
		    "Connecting to %s (%s)...",MxHosts[j], m->m_name);

So, my question is, under which circumstances does the "Connected" get's
printed (and the message not delivered) ?


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