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- Path: sparky!uunet!news.centerline.com!noc.near.net!nic.umass.edu!news.mtholyoke.edu!news.byu.edu!news
- Message-ID: <ca#@byu.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 08:27:50 MST
- From: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.networking
- Subject: Strange sendmail failure
- Reply-To: ecktons@sirius.byu.edu (Sean Eckton)
-
-
- This is really strange. I am using the TCP/IP with the newest CSD applied
- (or the newest that I found on ftp-os2) and sendmail sometimes has problems.
- I can try to send mail to it and the sending machine will timeout. Then, I
- restart sendmail in OS/2 and try to send the message again and it ends up
- with a remote protocol error. This is what happens:
-
- sirius{ecktons}:/Users/ecktons> mail -v sean@terminus.byu.edu
- Subject: test
- testing
-
- Cc:
-
- This is the verbose output:
-
- sean@terminus.byu.edu... Connecting to terminus.byu.edu (tcpld)...
- 220 terminus.byu.edu Sendmail IBM OS/2 SENDMAIL 1.2.5/1.2 ready at Thu, 12
- Nov 92 09:07:17 -0700
- >>> HELO sirius.byu.edu
- 250 terminus.byu.edu Hello sirius.byu.edu, pleased to meet you
- >>> MAIL From:<ecktons@sirius.byu.edu>
- 250 <ecktons@sirius.byu.edu>... Sender ok
- >>> RCPT To:<sean@terminus.byu.edu>
- 250 <sean@terminus.byu.edu>... Recipient ok
- >>> DATA
- 250 Ok
- >>> .
- 500 Command unrecognized
- >>> QUIT
- 221 terminus.byu.edu closing connection
- sean@terminus.byu.edu... Remote protocol error
-
-
- I found out what was happening when I did it manually. Everything is working
- fine up until the part when the DATA command is being sent to OS/2 sendmail.
- OS/2 sendmail replies that it is ok (250 OK). That isn't the correct
- response! Sendmail is not supposed to reply 250 OK, but this:
- 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself
- Consequently, OS/2 sendmail isn't expecting the body of the message and when
- the sending machine sends it, it ends up with a remote protocol error because
- the body of the message isn't a command to sendmail. Anyone else run into
- this problem? I have to restart sendmail several times before it starts
- working again and sometimes I have to reboot before it works. Any solutions?
-
- --
- Sean Eckton
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