DCP,
  we have ~24000 listnames in our aliases file. The system seems to run
for a while then hang. it has been a mix of outgoing and local
deliveries of the hangups. I will try sending files directly to lsv
without sendmail  and see what happens.

thanks for the help.

-brian

> At 12:17 PM 6/4/2003 -0400, brian wrote:
>
>>Is anyone out there running sendmail 8.12 and listserv 1.8e??
>
> We are on a very similar platform (Sun V880, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.9,
> LISTSERV Classic 1.8e). What do your aliases entries look like? Is it on
> incoming mail (if so, do things run well when done by hand rather than
> through Sendmail (cat file | lsv_amin -t listname)) or outgoing? Have
> you told Sendmail to drop a connection after a certain amount of time of
> null activity?
>
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