From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Dec 17 15:05:39 1996 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) id PAA26259 for questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from bitbucket.edmweb.com (bitbucket.edmweb.com [204.244.190.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id PAA26241 for ; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:05:35 -0800 (PST) Received: (from steve@localhost) by bitbucket.edmweb.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) id PAA00893; Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:04:25 -0800 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 15:04:21 -0800 (PST) From: Steve Reid To: Robert Chalmers cc: bsd Subject: Re: why does sendmail fail so much In-Reply-To: <199612172130.HAA15314@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I notice since I switched back to sendmail, that I get a lot more failed > messages than I used to with smail? things like the following; > > Mail Queue (1 request) > --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ > IAA13791 1783 Tue Dec 17 08:35 robert > (dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu... reply: read error from resnet.u) > dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu I don't know what's causing them, but they look like this on my end: Dec 14 03:44:15 kirk sendmail[18552]: collect: premature EOM: Connection reset by nanguo.chalmers.com.au Dec 14 03:44:15 kirk sendmail[18552]: DAA18552: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from nanguo.chalmers.com.au, from=: Connection reset by nanguo.chalmers.com.au I sent mail to postmaster@nanguo.chalmers.com.au (I guess that's you) with this info. These messages were really cluttering up my log files, but I don't get them from any other addresses.