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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!nerd.apk.net!sed.psrw.com!psinntp !psinntp!psinntp!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsxfer2.itd.umich.edu!netnews.worldnet.att.net!ix.netcom.com!news From: craig@m-net.arbornet.org Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI Incoming sendmail problem Date: 26 Jun 1996 22:16:42 GMT Organization: Netcom Lines: 33 Message-ID: <4qscsa$1o0@sjx-ixn5.ix.netcom.com> References: <4qkqhi$sn1@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com> Reply-To: craig@m-net.arbornet.org NNTP-Posting-Host: war-mi6-25.ix.netcom.com X-NETCOM-Date: Wed Jun 26 3:16:42 PM PDT 1996 X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 In <4qkqhi$sn1@dfw-ixnews7.ix.netcom.com>, craig@m-net.arbornet.org writes: >Hello. >We are running BSDI v1.1 and recently switched to a 56KB link. >Suddenly, our incoming mail (via Internet) is not working correctly. > >Outgoing works fine, and local e-mail works fine, but incoming e-mail does not. > >Symptoms: > Connections as shown in !ps are just sitting at the DATA portion of the mail receive. > > If I telnet to Port 25 directly from our machine, all commands and lines are accepted perfectly. > If I telnet to Port 25 from outside of our machine (via another service) everything works the > same... up until the DATA command. > I enter DATA <cr>, and the server responds with DATA <cr> > I enter the first line of text + <cr> and the server responds with the first line of text WITHOUT > the <cr>. I dont get the <cr> from the first data line echoed back to me until I enter the first > character of the second line... and so forth. > If I ignore that problem, it will receive and mail successfully... but, I wonder if outside mailers > calling in would ignore that? > > Also, if I continue on with the same connection, the problem does not recur. > > Anyone know if this would cause incoming mailers to freeze at DATA? > (/var/log/messages indicates an I/O error during collect, then a timeout) > > Anyone have any ideas what would make this happen? > >Thanks for any help you can provide. > >craig@m-net.arbornet.org > >