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 <[email protected]> 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, [email protected]): >> > 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.. > > >
