From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 7 22:45:48 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA11682 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:45:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts6-line14.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.44]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id WAA11676 for ; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id WAA00442; Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:45:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Ken Marsh cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP connection going away. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Ken Marsh wrote: > 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. Er, that's not right. > 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! Hm. Sounds like the remote machine doesn't like to talk to you. What do you have smtp-server set to in the configuration? Try enabling the verbose smtp display option (I can't remember the feature name, sorry) and see what that says. > 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. Yeah, this problem wouln't impact mail receive. > 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. Perhaps routed is interfering with your routes. Try disabling routed in /etc/sysconfig. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major