Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 00:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange sendmail behavior Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960809002724.136217B-100000@homer17.u.washington.edu>
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Just when I though I had mail working locally, it stopped working... kind
of. My initial problem was that Pine would sometimes be able to send out
my mail, and other times would report:
Mail not sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP connection went away!
My solution was to have pine send to localhost, and let sendmail -db take
care of the queue. It seemed to work flawlessly at first, but not now.
what follows is a ls of the /var/spool/mqueue at various times while I was
using pine and sending messages. My comments are interjected with <<.
(Note: the time in the prompt is static. The whole thing is over about 20
minutes.)
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls <<clean slate
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265 << my first message
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265 << not going out
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265
dfAAA00276 qfAAA00276 xfAAA00276 << my second message
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265 << second message goes out
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls before the first one!
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265
dfAAA00284 qfAAA00284 xfAAA00284 << third message
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00265 qfAAA00265 xfAAA00265
dfAAA00284 qfAAA00284 xfAAA00284
00:10:49 ROOT! #mailq
Mail Queue (1 request)
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
AAA00284* 847 Fri Aug 9 00:21 <durang@u.washington.edu>
<durang@u.washington.edu>
00:10:49 ROOT! #ls
dfAAA00284 qfAAA00284 << first one has finally
00:10:49 ROOT! #mailq gone out. but the third
Mail Queue (1 request) hasn't.
--Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time-----
------------Sender/Recipient------------
AAA00284 847 Fri Aug 9 00:21 <durang@u.washington.edu>
(Deferred: 451 timeout waiting for input)
<< 451 timeout waiting for input? what the hey?
My ppp connection has showed capital P's this whole time. What is wrong
with my SMTP here?
Ken
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