I spoke too soon.  I got three "lost input channel" errors tonight.
 I'll check the resource unavailable errors tomorrow. -Patrick

Valdis Kletnieks wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 11:56:15 EDT, Patrick Price <[log in to unmask]>  said:
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>>Should I be concerned about these?
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>>Sep 26 11:50:59 bugs sendmail[34894]: g8QFndhQ034894: lost input channel
>>from loopback [127.0.0.1] to MTA after rcpt
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>Aha.
>
>These are probably the *OTHER* end of the listserv-sendmail connection
>going away after the 'resource temporarily unavailable' error.  The fact
>that the number of hits *increased* when you tweaked SMTP_FORWARD_1 indicates
>that whatever is happening is doing so at a fairly low level.
>
>I admit being at a loss for what resource could run out after the RCPT TO:,
>but I'm feeling pretty confident that the problem is that the LSV side starts
>sending the mail, gets into the RCPT TO phase, runs out of "something",
>and closes the connection.  Lather, rinse, repeat.
>
>Could you take one of those queue id's ( g8QFrghQ031672 for example) and
>grep for *all* occurences in your sendmail log?  I'm curious about how many
>recipients were listed, and exactly how far (and how fast) it got to the
>point it died...
>--
>                                Valdis Kletnieks
>                                Computer Systems Senior Engineer
>                                Virginia Tech
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