From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 9 00:43:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA20137 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 00:43:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from homer17.u.washington.edu (durang@homer17.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA20125 for ; Fri, 9 Aug 1996 00:43:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost by homer17.u.washington.edu (5.65+UW96.06/UW-NDC Revision: 2.33 ) id AA114332; Fri, 9 Aug 96 00:43:21 -0700 Date: Fri, 9 Aug 1996 00:43:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: strange sendmail behavior Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Just when I though I had mail working locally, it stopped working... kind of. My initial problem was that Pine would sometimes be able to send out my mail, and other times would report: Mail not sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP connection went away! My solution was to have pine send to localhost, and let sendmail -db take care of the queue. It seemed to work flawlessly at first, but not now. what follows is a ls of the /var/spool/mqueue at various times while I was using pine and sending messages. My comments are interjected with <<. (Note: the time in the prompt is static. The whole thing is over about 20 minutes.) 00:10:49 ROOT! #ls < 00:10:49 ROOT! #ls dfAAA00284 qfAAA00284 << first one has finally 00:10:49 ROOT! #mailq gone out. but the third Mail Queue (1 request) hasn't. --Q-ID-- --Size-- -----Q-Time----- ------------Sender/Recipient------------ AAA00284 847 Fri Aug 9 00:21 (Deferred: 451 timeout waiting for input) << 451 timeout waiting for input? what the hey? My ppp connection has showed capital P's this whole time. What is wrong with my SMTP here? Ken