Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 23:41:16 +0000 From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org> To: freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: ttam@mail.iidpwr.com, adam@veda.is, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org Subject: Re: Netscape mail (out of memory) Message-ID: <3259951C.41C67EA6@iworks.InterWorks.org>
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> > > > What's the deal with Netscape mail? I must be missing some configuration > > > > detail? Whenever I try to mail from Netscape, it fails with: > > > > > > > > Netscape is out of memory. > > > > > > > > Try quitting some other applications or closing > > > > some windows. > > > > > > > > There is no shortage of memory on the system when this happens. > > > > As far as I can tell, I have created all the necessary files and directories > > > > and filled out relevant configuration details, for mail to work in Netscape. > > > > The SMTP server is reachable and functioning, but Netscape gives up before > > > > sending the actual message data. > > The same problem happened to me when I was using the beta version. I had > to continually exit and go back in. The latest version is 3.0-RELEASE. I've been using Netscape betas and now 3.0Gold-RELEASE without a problem. Today, one of our users had this same exact problem. Why did he get the problem and I didn't? We were both using the same system, a 2.1.5-RELEASE system with Netscape 3.0Gold-RELEASE. I have a local account on the system as deischen that I use to do root things. This system also uses NIS and AMD to a Sun Solaris 2.5 box. The other user doesn't have a local account on the system, so he was logged in with an NIS user ID/password. I also have an NIS user ID and password, though I don't use it as much as I should. When I logged in with my NIS user ID, I got the same exact "out of memory" problem. This system is a P166 with 64MB RAM, with 75MB partitioned swap and another 64MB of vnode swap. It's sharing a directory via NFS to 5 machines, and is a samba server, but it doesn't have any memory problems that I can see. It's also got a load of disk space with all partitions having a lot of room to spare. The NIS account home directories are automounted and there is plenty of disk space for them too. I got really curious and started poking around with ktrace/kdump to see if I could figure it out, but wasn't able to. I noted that Netscape writes its mail file to /tmp before sending it. This was fine - we all had rights to /tmp and I could see the file being written and then deleted. Using kdump, I could see the SMTP session with our SMTP server - everything looked fine, except when Netscape got around to issuing the "DATA" command to the SMTP server, there was no mail (no characters at all) after that point. Whatever it is, it doesn't end up issuing the mail to the SMTP server. I also tried using Netscape from my local account while remotely logged in, at the same time another person was logged in with an NIS account. He had the "out of memory" problem with Netscape, while I had no problem at all. What does using NIS/AMD have anything to do with Netscape mail? Is it a per-user limit that's getting hit somewhere? Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
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