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From: Karl Wiebe <karl@dnai.com>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problem with mail in 2.1R (and 2.0R!)
Date: 14 Feb 1996 20:35:46 GMT
Organization: Direct Network Access
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grutz@tk.org (Kurt Grutzmacher) wrote:
>I can't exactly say WHEN this problem started happening but I know it seems
>to be around the time we upgraded from 1.1R to 2.0R and it has persisted
>when upgrading to 2.1R and all permutations of sendmail.
[ ... ]
>Feb 12 10:07:28 tk sendmail[787]: JAA00787: SYSERR(root): collect: read timeout
>on connection from listserv.cnet.com, from=<owner-dispatch@LISTSERV.CNET.COM>
[ ... ]
>We are using SLIP at 28.8k - tty is set to 57600 but no diff when using
>115200 ...
This is a very common problem all over the net on busy machines running
sendmail. Yours is over a 28.8 SLIP dialup, so it is even more likely to
happen. Sendmail will of course retry for a while before it gives up.
Are you sure you weren't just logging the mail syslog messages to a file,
and not noticing the timeouts ( under 1.x.y ) ? I've never seen a machine
running sendmail that didn't get these messages from time to time. It is like
having the fetching of a web page fail, surely you've had this happen to you?
--Karl
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== Karl Wiebe == karl@dnai.com ==
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud
"Order is a form of repetition compulsion" --Freud