Hi, smtpd has recently benefited from many changes to the local and remote delivery code paths. Their aim is to advance smtpd few steps further to being well suited for production use. I have been working on this for a number of weeks, and to put it bluntly - the changes are massive.
So, please grab the latest smtpd and give it a spin. If you are not already using smtpd but would like to start, edit /etc/mailer.conf sendmail /usr/sbin/smtpctl send-mail /usr/sbin/smtpctl mailq /usr/sbin/smtpctl makemap /usr/libexec/smtpd/makemap newaliases /usr/libexec/smtpd/makemap and run # echo sendmail_flags=NO >> /etc/rc.conf.local # echo smtpd_flags= >> /etc/rc.conf.local # newaliases Finally, reboot the box to verify smtpd is started automatically. Thanks, Jacek