From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Mar 31 21:51:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from pop.idx.com.au (pop.idx.com.au [203.14.30.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7C0E37BB31 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 21:51:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dannyh@idx.com.au) Received: from freebsd.freebsd.org (idxwc04-137.idx.com.au [203.166.1.137]) by pop.idx.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA19974; Sat, 1 Apr 2000 15:50:53 +1000 From: Danny To: patl@phoenix.volant.org, patl@phoenix.volant.org, freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Outlook causing sendmail hangs Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 15:52:54 +1000 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.21] Content-Type: text/plain References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <00040215551100.00513@freebsd.freebsd.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello Do you mean Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express. Microsoft Outlook comes with Office 97 + Outlook Express comes with Internet Explorer 4 + I know Outlook Express has a Y2K problem. Have you tried the following :- Get the person to reinstall Outlook Express again? Maybe get them to change to a better email client like Eudora On Fri, 31 Mar 2000, patl@phoenix.volant.org wrote: > I have a customer who is reporting that occasionally when sending a > message using Outlook, the sendmail process will apparently hang; > and then Outlook will make another connection, and hang that sendmail, > ad infinitum. (Leaving a cluster of hung sendmail processes.) > > Have any of you heard of anything like that? Any ideas what to look > for to fix it? (They are running a fairly recent version of sendmail > on SPARC/Solaris. I don't know what version of Outlook or Windows.) > > > Thanks, > -Pat > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message