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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? 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. Kees <-> Gateway Information. This message originated from a Fidonet System (http://www.fidonet.org) and was gated at TCOB1 (http://www.tcob1.net) Please do not respond direct to this message but via the list