>> >Yes, pine 3.90 is often hanging around at or about the time of the

>> It is early days yet, but the tentative result is that pine is the
>> culprit possibly due to ftruncate() as you suggest. Perhaps that fix
>> you alluded to was compromised with the integration of the 4.4
>> sources?

>Yup, I have 3.90 installed, and according to the accounting, sendmail is alway
s the 
>last process run before the crash. I'll disable the use of pine for awhile and
 monitor
>the results.
>
>bry

I'll just throw in that I use MH for all my mail handling.  I receive
the current-users list, plus send and receive private email on my home
machine through a PPP link.  With my setup, I haven't experienced any
of these crashes, and sendmail is quite busy here sometimes.  Just
another point of data. :-)

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