Valdis,
 thanks for the input. I will change sendmail I was using the
SMTP_RESET_EVERY flag in go.user.
I will send you the output from truss, lsof and dbx directly.

thanks

-brian

> On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 12:17:16 EDT, "Brian K. Becknell" <[log in to unmask]>
>  said:
>> Hello everyone.
>>  I hate to keep posting to the list about the problem I am having,
>> but...
>> The problems I have are causing severe headaches here and I need
>> help!!! I have following several suggestion on the list about sendmail
>> configuration and I am still having problems.
>
> Does adding this to your sendmail.mc help:
>
> define(`confTO_COMMAND',`5m')
>
> The 8.12.8 default:
>
> confTO_COMMAND          Timeout.command [1h] In server SMTP, the timeout
>                                         waiting for a command to be
> issued.
>
> This won't actually *FIX* the problem, but it should make the sendmail
> drop the connection after the lsv side has been idle for 5 mins (and
> 'lsv' will just re-open a new connection when that happens).  If it
> isn't dropping it, then there's a bigger Sendmail issue.
>
> Also, could you send me what lsof reports the connection between the two
> processes is?  It should be an IPv4 connect to 127.0.0.1, but I'd like
> to double-check that.  Also, use 'netstat' to see if there's any pending
> queued data in either direction.
>
> /Valdis (who is still on Listserv 1.8d, but had loads of fun
> beta-testing 8.12 ;)