From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 12 15:27:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 717E337B401 for ; Tue, 12 Jun 2001 15:27:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b066.otenet.gr [195.167.121.194]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f5CMRnv04698; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:27:49 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f5CMRmM64051; Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:27:48 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 01:27:48 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: "Patrick O'Reilly" Cc: FreeBSD Question List Subject: Re: Sendmail problem Message-ID: <20010613012747.G62873@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010611215304.C2209@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from patrick@mip.co.za on Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:58:54AM +0200 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 12, 2001 at 08:58:54AM +0200, Patrick O'Reilly wrote: > Giorgos, > > I apologise for the 'lack of information', but that is exactly the problem I > have myself. > > I have checked the maillog file as you suggested, and all I see that relates > to these users are messages like the following: > > ----- > > Jun 12 00:44:38 puck sendmail[10856]: XAA10856: timeout waiting for input > > from stefan.mip.co.za during message collect > > Jun 12 00:44:38 puck sendmail[10856]: XAA10856: from=, > > size=0, class=0, pri=30000, nrcpts=1, > > msgid=<200106112144.XAA10856@mip.co.za>, proto=SMTP, > > relay=stefan.mip.co.za [10.3.15.62] > > ----- Ahem, looking at the 8.11.3 sources that I have handy, the collect() function which is called in src/srvrsmtp.c right after the DATA command is issued from an SMTP client. As I read the source of srvrsmtp.c, looking for hints, I found out the following: 1783 case CMDDATA: /* data -- text of mail */ ... 1818 /* collect the text of the message */ 1819 SmtpPhase = "collect"; 1820 buffer_errors(); 1821 collect(InChannel, TRUE, NULL, e); and it is collect() that's printing the error you are seeing. To make a long story short, I think that this is not a problem with your Sendmail setup, but that other network connectivity problems prevent your client from completing the message body after it sends the DATA command. -giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message