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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: What does this mean?!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov19.192417.15461@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Keywords: sendmail
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Nov19.184135.20886@news.acns.nwu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 19:24:17 GMT
- Lines: 17
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- In article <1992Nov19.184135.20886@news.acns.nwu.edu> nims@Andersen.COM (Christopher D. Nims) writes:
- > One of our
- >users is complaining that some of his mail isn't getting out. The
- >following messages are showing up in /var/log/syslog:
- >
- >Nov 17 13:57:59 valentino sendmail[1279]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading
- >from andersen: Connection timed out
-
- If this is only happening to a few individual users, one possibility is
- that they are managing to create a message without a trailing '\n'. If
- the line is not properly terminated the SMTP receiver hangs waiting
- for CR,LF, '.' CR, LF.
-
- If this happens to all mail from one host there is a possibility of a
- network problems. But if it is a network problem you should also have
- experience it with other software using TCP.
-
-