I experienced this today, very frustrating; sendmail all locked up and outputting this bizarre “timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input” error into the logs.<\/p>\n
tl;dr: figure out what sendmail is waiting for.<\/p>\n
In my case, it was stuck on procmail. But why? Turns out the local mailbox (a user that runs a lot of crons) had hit 3GB, at which point it didn’t seem to be accepting any more email into that inbox. Moving that file out of the way and allowing a new one to be created caused the queue to be flushed instantly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I experienced this today, very frustrating; sendmail all locked up and outputting this bizarre “timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input” error into the logs. tl;dr: figure out what sendmail is waiting for. In my case, it was stuck on procmail. But why? Turns out the local mailbox (a user that runs a … Continue reading timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioRW-3e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":201,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200\/revisions\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laur.ie\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}