Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 22:45:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Ken Marsh <durang@u.washington.edu> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SMTP connection going away. Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960807224402.216Z-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.A32.3.92a.960807131811.86254G-100000@homer27.u.washington.edu>
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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
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