nbecker> I noticed recently that when I use mail-send (C-c C-c in mail) I nbecker> often see a considerable delay until xemacs will again respond to nbecker> me (busy cursor is displayed for many seconds). I notice that nbecker> mail-interactive is nil. nbecker> It may be that this became try when I upgraded(?) to xemacs-21.0b61. nbecker> It may also be that is when I upgraded to exim-2.05 (from exim-1.90). nbecker> Anyone else see this? Does exim's sendmail emulation support -odb (for background delivery)?

Here's another data point - during this period of time when XEmacs is not responding, my process table shows a zombie sendmail process: sirius:cgw$ ps ax|grep mail 29221 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m -bd 31845 ? Z 0:00 (sendmail <zombie>) 31846 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -f cgw -oem -odb -t Here's another run, in "forest" (-f) format, slightly edited 29221 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/sendmail -q15m -bd 31994 ? S 0:00 /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -f cgw -oem -odb -t 187 2 SW 0:00 (bash) 298 2 SW 0:00 \_ (startx) 299 2 SW 0:00 \_ (xinit) 300 ? R 7:09 \_ /usr/X11R6/bin/Xwrapper :0 303 2 S 0:42 \_ wmaker 4125 2 SW 0:00 \_ (sh) 4127 2 S 6:04 | \_ xemacs 31993 ? Z 0:00 | \_ (sendmail <zombie>) 4156 p2 SW 0:00 | \_ (gnuserv) Process 31994 is the process actually handling the delivery of the message. I don't yet understand what process 31993 is.