On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 02:26:24AM +0000, Kees Bergwerf wrote:
Originally to: Cliff Sarginson
Hello Cliff!
Tuesday October 30 2001 11:11, Cliff Sarginson wrote to All:
CS> Clarify, you can send mail, but only two line messages ?
Well.. sometimes 3 lines. I have sent you a few messages with Kmail. one line goes well, two lines also, 3 lines takes more time and four lines will not go away: kmail rapports a network error, result-code 0.
CS> The process list you sent is of no value in this.
well.. I had also problems with binkd, binkd server would not start. But there was another program running, started by inetd. When I killed that program, binkd server could be started finally. So I thought that perhaps there was a program running that gives trouble when using port 25.
CS> try a few things:
CS> - Send me directly a message, even if only a 2 line one
done.
CS> - Try sending me a longer one, if it fails mail the list what CS> exactly happens
Kmail starts sending the message, I wait a few seconds, nothing happens, I wait a minute, an error messages pops up. I have also tried sendmail with kmail,
Oct 31 01:43:31 linux sendmail[1937]: f9TLVNg00880: to=bas@bijbelenpc.nl, ctladdr=root (0/0), delay=1+03:12:08, xdelay=00:16:59, mailer=smtp, pri=4444054, relay=smtp.hccnet.nl [62.251.0.13], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: Connection timed out with smtp.hccnet.nl I have not done anything with the sendmail config file. Sometimes, sendmail says 'accepted for delivery' but the above message will not go away.
CS> - Try "mail"
I see a lot of messages. A few like this: ********************************************** ** THIS IS A WARNING MESSAGE ONLY ** ** YOU DO NOT NEED TO RESEND YOUR MESSAGE ** **********************************************
The original message was received at Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:54:27 +0200 from localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]
----- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors ----- max@volta.ee
----- Transcript of session follows ----- max@volta.ee... Deferred: Name server: volta.ee.: host name lookup failure Warning: message still undelivered after 1 day Will keep trying until message is 5 days old [....]
CS> "mailx" from the command line with various size CS> messages, report what happens.
ehrm.. you mean that I can send mail with the mail command? :-) Well. I tried, 'mail cliff@raggedclown.net' short messages and at the end quite a long message, but after the dot, I get a EOF message and I am back at the prompt. Is it really possible to send mail this way?
:) Of course it is, long ago and far away everyone used "mail". I use it quite often if I am in a hurry, and in shell scripts. You can even use sendmail directly to send mail, although user friendliness is not high on the agenda and you do have to know the SMTP commands.
Ahh.. I see that 'mail' uses sendmail. But the sendmail log says that all messages are accepted for deliverance.
CS> - Try and telnet into your mailer, what happens ? CS> "telnet localhost 25"
bash-2.04# telnet localhost 25 Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost. Escape character is '^]'. 220 linux.cbw ESMTP Sendmail 8.11.2/8.11.2/SuSE Linux 8.11.1-0.5; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:31:08 +0100
then what?
helo linux.cbw 250 linux.cbw Hello localhost [127.0.0.1], pleased to meet you
I really don't know what to do :-\
CS> What MTA are you using ? Look at output of "ps -ef", sendmail CS> probably.
Yes, sendmail.
CS> Say *precisely* what you do and what happens..ok ?
I tried.
It worked ok two weeks ago. Probably the online update was not a good idea. I don't know what is updated or else I would uninstall those packages and install it again (the older version) from the cd.
If you can send mail of arbitrary length using "mail" then it does not sound like your sendmail configuration is broken, you can also telnet port 25 and get sendmail's greeting, so that sounds ok. Mmm. Let me think about this, netscape mail and kmail are both broken for you. Try it again and see what surfaces in the logs, the relevant log should be /var/log/mail or /var/log/maillog. Wait until netscape/kmail bitches, then snip out the last lines from the maillog and post those. I presume it is only X that is freezing up, not your whole machine ? If it is the whole machine you will need to fiddle with syslog a bit..but I will tell you how to do that if that is the case. -- Regards Cliff