Sendmail 8.8.5-1 bug?

[Oz Dror <dror@netcom.com>]

Hi,

My DNS server is my ISP server. In earlier version of sendmail.
mail that was sent while not while not connected to my DNS server was just
queued. When a connection was established the queued mail was sent.

In this new version of sendmail (8.8.5-1) the mail programs (mail, elm) hangs
if sending mail remotely is done while not connecting to the DNS server.
the forked sendmail process is waiting on a socket for the DNS server, thus
freezing the mail program. Subsequent connection to the DNS server does not
release the hanging mail program.

I do not have a problem when sending mail while connecting to the DNS server.

in summary sendmail hangs when sending mail while not connected to the DNS
server. Why it does not queue the mail and quit?

I have debian 1.3.1
sendmail 8.8.5-1
kernel 2.0.30

Any help will be appreciated

thanks
Oz
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