I'll be planning on upgrade soon then, if that cures the problem (ie: i will use submission_host instead of sendmail binary)
Another (maybe) unrelated question. It is possible to add extra parameters so the connection made to submission_host uses user's credentials ? (for authenticated smtp) Or I'm asking something ridiculous?
Thanks Timo, Thanks list.
Javier
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 8:42 PM, Timo Sirainen tss@iki.fi wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 18:23 +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 16.6.2011, at 19.24, Javier wrote:
Jun 16 13:18:27 mailstore5 dovecot: lmtp(8460, xxxx@xxxxxxx.com): Error: waitpid() failed: No child processes
This is the main problem. It just shouldn't be happening. You could try stracing an lmtp process while it sends a mail, and see if there are two waitpid() calls or of the first one is giving this error. If there is only this one waitpid() call this would seem like a kernel problem.
I think this fixes the bug: http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.0/rev/748b0fd169d1
Of course, since you can't upgrade that's not very helpful.. You could try to figure out why your sendmail binary is forking and not make it do that..