From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 14 18:23:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id SAA00656 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 May 1996 18:23:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [204.216.27.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id SAA00647 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 18:23:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with ESMTP id SAA00404 for ; Tue, 14 May 1996 18:23:05 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA24784; Wed, 15 May 1996 11:01:17 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605150131.LAA24784@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: sending email using netscape? To: rich@lamprey.utmb.edu Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 11:01:16 +0930 (CST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199605142008.PAA04476@richc.isdn.bcm.tmc.edu> from "Rich Murphey" at May 14, 96 03:08:07 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Rich Murphey stands accused of saying: > > Does anyone successfully use Netscape to send email? Yup. > When I hit 'send' it reports 'Netscape is out of > memory. Try quitting some other applications or closing > some windows'. All the bsdi and linux versions > avilable do this for me on FreeBSD-stable. Weird. Given that it's almost impossible to 'run out of memory' on a BSD system (normally you'd get an 'out of swap space' error from the kernel, followed by things being killed off to make some space) > ktrace shows netscape successfully connecting to the > smtp server and sending/recieving everything from smtp > server correctly upto the point the the body of the > message should be sent, but it stops there. Rich Sounds like one to take up with Netscape - which version is this? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[