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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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