Gilles (or anybody), I've been using smtpd since 4.6-RELEASE, for one domain-several email addresses, plus one constantly receiving mailing list emails (including misc@). It's been great.
Problem is, I've just set up smtpd on 4.7-RELEASE, using a very simple ruleset, with the aim of using this as an outgoing only smtp server, for an in-house weekly newsletter, going out to 3000+ recipients. The server crashes intermittently. With smtpd started with the -dvf arguments, I can see where it breaks: ... lookup_a mx2.mail.eu.yahoo.com:0 fatal: dns: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable lookup_ptr success mta: getting datafd lost child: lookup agent exited abnormally queue handler exiting mail filter exiting mail delivery agent exiting control process exiting mail transfer agent exiting smtp server exiting runner handler exiting parent terminating lookup_a success loolookup_ptr success kup_a mx1.mail.eu.yahoo.com:0 lookup_ptr success lookup_a success lookup_mx success fatal: dns_dispatch_parent: msgbuf_write: Broken pipe # (command prompt) # lookup_ptr success fatal: dns_dispatch_parent: msgbuf_write: Broken pipe Obviously, the record being looked up constantly changes, but the crash is always the same: msgbuf_write: Broken pipe. Now, I realise, from reading this list, that smtpd is not meant to be production-ready, but I'm happy to use it (so long as it works) and test it, and send information back to the developers, where relevant. Is this a bug that's been looked at and fixed since -RELEASE? My ruleset: ext_if= "re0" listen on $ext_if map "aliases" { source db "/etc/mail/aliases.db" } accept for local alias aliases deliver to maildir accept from all for all relay accept for all relay My dmesg follows: OpenBSD 4.7 (GENERIC.MP) #130: Wed Mar 17 20:48:50 MDT 2010 dera...@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP real mem = 2145255424 (2045MB) avail mem = 2078703616 (1982MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.4 @ 0xf0100 (39 entries) bios0: vendor Award Software International, Inc. version "F4" date 04/03/2009 bios0: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. EP41-UD3L acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP HPET MCFG APIC SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT SSDT acpi0: wakeup devices PEX0(S5) PEX1(S5) PEX2(S5) PEX3(S5) PEX4(S5) PEX5(S5) HUB0(S5) UAR1(S3) USB0(S3) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) USBE(S3) AZAL(S5) PCI0(S5) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpihpet0 at acpi0: 14318179 Hz acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2600.28 MHz cpu0: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu0: 2MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache cpu0: apic clock running at 199MHz cpu1 at mainbus0: apid 1 (application processor) cpu1: Pentium(R) Dual-Core CPU E5300 @ 2.60GHz, 2599.94 MHz cpu1: FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,SBF,SSE3,MWAIT,DS-CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,CX16,xTPR,NXE,LONG cpu1: 2MB 64b/line 8-way L2 cache ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 2 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins ioapic0: misconfigured as apic 0, remapped to apid 2 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 2 (PEX0) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX1) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX2) acpiprt4 at acpi0: bus 3 (PEX3) acpiprt5 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX4) acpiprt6 at acpi0: bus -1 (PEX5) acpiprt7 at acpi0: bus 4 (HUB0) acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2, C1, FVS, 1600, 1200 MHz acpicpu1 at acpi0: C3, C2, C1, FVS, 1600, 1200 MHz acpibtn0 at acpi0: PWRB pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0 pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel G41 Host" rev 0x03 ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 vendor "Intel", unknown product 0x2e31 rev 0x03: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) pci1 at ppb0 bus 1 vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "ATI Radeon HD 4550" rev 0x00 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) azalia0 at pci1 dev 0 function 1 "ATI Radeon HD 4000 HD Audio" rev 0x00: apic 2 int 17 (irq 12) azalia0: no supported codecs azalia0: initialization failure, detaching azalia1 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801GB HD Audio" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) azalia1: codecs: Realtek ALC888 audio0 at azalia1 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) pci2 at ppb1 bus 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 3 "Intel 82801GB PCIE" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 (irq 11) pci3 at ppb2 bus 3 re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic 2 int 19 (irq 11), address 00:24:1d:d0:a2:d8 rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 23 (irq 5) uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 (irq 11) uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 18 (irq 7) uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 16 (irq 10) ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801GB USB" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 23 (irq 5) usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BA Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xe1 pci4 at ppb3 bus 4 pcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801GB LPC" rev 0x01 pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801GB SATA" rev 0x01: DMA, channel 0 configured to native-PCI, channel 1 configured to native-PCI pciide0: using apic 2 int 19 (irq 0) for native-PCI interrupt wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <FUJITSU MHW2080BH PL> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 76318MB, 156299375 sectors wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 wd1 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 1: <WDC WD2500AAJS-60VWA1> wd1: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 238475MB, 488397168 sectors wd1(pciide0:1:1): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801GB SMBus" rev 0x01: apic 2 int 19 (irq 11) iic0 at ichiic0 iic0: addr 0x4e 03=34 04=34 12=ff 13=0f 20=0f 26=03 28=83 29=12 2a=12 2b=28 words 00=0000 01=0000 02=0034 03=3434 04=3400 05=0000 06=0000 07=0000 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 2GB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-6400CL5 usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at pcib0 isadma0 at isa0 com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker> spkr0 at pcppi0 it0 at isa0 port 0x2e/2: IT8718F rev 5, EC port 0x290 fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support uhub5 at uhub0 port 5 "Apple Computer product 0x9131" rev 2.00/1.01 addr 2 uhidev0 at uhub5 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Apple Computer, Inc. Apple Cinema HD Display" rev 1.10/1.14 addr 3 uhidev0: iclass 3/0, 228 report ids uhid0 at uhidev0 reportid 2: input=0, output=0, feature=257 uhid1 at uhidev0 reportid 16: input=0, output=0, feature=2 uhid2 at uhidev0 reportid 214: input=0, output=0, feature=2 uhid3 at uhidev0 reportid 228: input=2, output=0, feature=0 uhub6 at uhub5 port 3 "Apple Inc. Keyboard Hub" rev 2.00/96.15 addr 4 uhidev1 at uhub6 port 2 configuration 1 interface 0 "Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard" rev 2.00/0.70 addr 5 uhidev1: iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev1: 8 modifier keys, 5 key codes, country code 13 wskbd0 at ukbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 uhidev2 at uhub6 port 2 configuration 1 interface 1 "Apple Inc. Apple Keyboard" rev 2.00/0.70 addr 5 uhidev2: iclass 3/0 uhid4 at uhidev2: input=1, output=0, feature=0 uhidev3 at uhub6 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "Mitsumi Electric Apple Optical USB Mouse" rev 1.10/1.08 addr 6 uhidev3: iclass 3/1 ums0 at uhidev3: 4 buttons, Z and W dir wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 axe0 at uhub0 port 7 configuration 1 interface 0 "Linksys USB 2.0 10/100 Ethernet controller" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 7 axe0: AX88172, address 00:10:60:84:b1:19 rlphy0 at axe0 phy 3: RTL8201L 10/100 PHY, rev. 1 vscsi0 at root scsibus0 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on wd0a swap on wd0b dump on wd0b WARNING: / was not properly unmounted