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From: wongm@latcs1.lat.oz.au (M.C. Wong)
Subject: [2.1R] sendmail timeout error
Message-ID: <DMtJAt.Fu3@latcs1.lat.oz.au>
Organization: Comp Sci, La Trobe Uni, Australia
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 13:11:17 GMT
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Hi,
Recently, I am getting MANY repeated mail messages from one of the hosts
elsewhere, and checking the log revealed the following:
Feb 15 12:42:35 lespoir sendmail[5425]: timeout waiting for input from molhub.mol.net.my during message header read
Feb 15 12:42:40 lespoir sendmail[5425]: KAA05425: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from molhub.mol.net.my, from=<mfwong@mol.net.my>: Connection reset by peer during collect with molhub.mol.net.my
Feb 15 12:42:40 lespoir sendmail[5425]: KAA05425: SYSERR(root): collect: I/O error on connection from molhub.mol.net.my, from=<mfwong@mol.net.my>: Connection reset by peer during collect with molhub.mol.net.my
Note that since I do not have MX hosts, that sendong host MUST talk to my
mail server directly. Anyway, does anyone know what EXACTLY is causing the
timeout problem ? And where about in the sendmail source can I change the
timeout value to something larger (if that helps). If not, anyone has any work
around for now ?
OTOH, does anyone have any luck with elm on 2.1R ? I ftp the port and make
a binary for myself, but upon starting up elm, I keep getting :
Waiting to read mailbox while mail is being received: attempt #0-#6
Giving up after 7 iterations.
Please try to read your mail again in a few minutes.
Timed out on locking mailbox. Leaving program.
I make sure there is NO mail being received when I start elm. pine works
fine by the way. Any idea what is hapenning ? Have I configure it to use the
wrong setting during make state ? If so what are the culprits ? Otherwise,
does anyone have any precompiled elm binary available for ftp ?
Thanks in advance.