Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 13:30:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SMTP connection going away. Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960807131811.86254G-100000@homer27.u.washington.edu>
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using pine locally on a PPP connection to my ISP works only for a few minutes before I can no longer send any messages out. I upgraded to Pine 3.95 to fix this, but that didn't work. However, pine now give more explicit messages about the problem. When I have been composing a message for over a minute or so, pine goes into the sending mode, "sending message | 0%" then "sending message | 100%" at which point it stops entirely and goes to sleep. ps shows: UID PID PPID CPU PRI NI VSZ RSS WCHAN STAT TT TIME COMMAND 1000 221 216 0 2 0 1400 1552 select S+ p1 0:03.20 (pine) After a period of time (about 5-10 minutes), pine finally says: Mail not sent. Sending error: 421 SMTP connection went away! At this point, I can telnet another machine at the University and still access my mail, and if I open another copy of pine locally, I can too. Also, new mail still rolls in and pine gives the "new messages from" message. I just can't send mail. If I get on pine and compose and send quickly, I can send out many messages, only after a period spent not sending does the SMTP connection shut me out. Is this a problem with my machine? or is it the IPS's (Univ. of WA) setup? If anyone thinks it's pine, I'll be happy to mail my question to them instead. Unfortunately, mailing the University on this will only get me a long FAQ regarding Windoze/Mac setup. I would send more info, but I have no idea what would help diagnose. Thanks in advance. Ken
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