Exim creates a zombie

[Jens Kubieziel <maillist@kuwest.de>]

Hi,

I'm working with:

kubi@QBI050102:~$ sudo exim -bV
Exim version 3.36 #1 built 12-Mar-2003 20:59:47
Copyright (c) University of Cambridge 2002

and played around with the main configuration settings within my
exim.conf. Since I've done that I realised that I have always a zombie
process:

kubi@QBI050102:~$ ps ax | grep Z
  308 ?        Z      0:00 [sendmail] <defunct>

I made following settings in the main configuration settings of
exim.conf (without rbl_* and received_header_text):

 ,-----[ main config settings from exim.conf ]
| local_domains = localhost:QBI050102
| local_domains_include_host = true
| local_domains_include_host_literals = true
| never_users = root
| host_lookup = *
| headers_check_syntax = true
| rbl_reject_recipients = true
| recipients_reject_except = postmaster@kubieziel.de
| host_accept_relay = 127.0.0.1 : ::::1
| host_auth_accept_relay = *
| trusted_users = mail
| smtp_verify = true
| gecos_pattern = ^([^,:]*)
| gecos_name = $1
| smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 100
| freeze_tell_mailmaster = true
| auto_thaw = 10h
| receiver_try_verify = true
| local_interfaces = 127.0.0.1
| accept_timeout = 360s
| delay_warning = 50h
| envelope_to_remove = true
| errors_reply_to = postmaster@kubieziel.de
| log_incoming_port = true
| log_received_recipients = true
| log_refused_recipients = true
| message_size_limit = 5M
| message_size_limit_count_recipients = true
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Why does exim create a zombie process?

Thanks for your hints
-- 
Jens Kubieziel                                   http://www.kubieziel.de
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