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Date:      Tue, 8 Oct 1996 07:10:02 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Adam David <adam@veda.is>
To:        deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org (Daniel M. Eischen)
Cc:        freebsd@trogon.kiwi.net, questions@FreeBSD.ORG, ttam@mail.iidpwr.com, deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org
Subject:   Re: Netscape mail (out of memory)
Message-ID:  <199610080710.HAA11657@veda.is>
In-Reply-To: <3259951C.41C67EA6@iworks.InterWorks.org> from "Daniel M. Eischen" at "Oct 7, 96 11:41:16 pm"

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Dan Eischen:
> 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.

Hi Dan, and thanks for the extra correlations. Yes! This has narrowed down
the problem somewhat, I am also seeing it as a NIS user.

> 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.

Identical to what I saw with tcpdump.

> What does using NIS/AMD have anything to do with Netscape mail?  Is it
> a per-user limit that's getting hit somewhere?

And why "out of memory" when there would seem to be plenty available?

--
Adam David <adam@veda.is>



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