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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
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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
>
>