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From: "Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>
To: wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in   /var/spool/mqueue]
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:52:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A0C43D0.14039937@timpanogas.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96LJ1.1b7.1001110135209.27803A-100000@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca>



"William F. Maton" wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> 
> >
> > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken,
> > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux
> > platforms.  Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail,
> > use qmail instead", perhaps we should look at this problem and refute
> > these statements -- I think that sendmail is causing this problem.  The
> > version is sendmail 8.9.3
> 
> What about sendmail 8.11.1?  Is the problem there too?

Yes.  Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses
encryption.
> 
> >
> > I can reproduce this bug on RH6.2, RH7.0, Caldera 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4,
> > Suse 6.X versions, and any of these distributions with the following
> > kernels.
> >
> > 2.2.14, 2.2.16, 2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.4.0 (all).  What happens is that
> > sendmail fails to forward mails with any attachments larger than 400K,
> > and they just sit in the /var/spool/mqueue directory for up to a week,
> > and eventually get delivered.
> >
> > ANyone have any ideas if what the sendmail people are saying is on the
> > level, or is this just another sendmail bug.
> >
> > Jeff
> 
> wfms
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-10 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 97+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-10 18:45 [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 18:52 ` William F. Maton
2000-11-10 18:52   ` Jeff V. Merkey [this message]
2000-11-10 19:05     ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-10 19:04       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:30         ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-10 19:46           ` Tim Walberg
2000-11-11 11:33             ` Dominik Kubla
2000-11-11 13:35               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 23:41         ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 22:34           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  0:45             ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 23:40       ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 19:08     ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:10       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:15       ` William F. Maton
2000-11-10 23:37     ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 19:34   ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 19:33     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 13:24       ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 18:05         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:02 ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:00   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:11     ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-10 19:13       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:25         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:35 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 19:34   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 19:51     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 20:07       ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 20:21         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-10 20:27           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:36             ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 21:09             ` William F. Maton
2000-11-10 21:10               ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:42           ` Richard B. Johnson
2000-11-10 20:47             ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 20:59               ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:28                 ` Davide Libenzi
2000-11-10 21:16                   ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:19                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11  0:14               ` Igmar Palsenberg
2000-11-10 23:12                 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 23:13                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  1:15                   ` Steve VanDevender
2000-11-11  2:02                     ` David Ford
2000-11-11  3:20                       ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  3:14                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 13:29                   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 20:31         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-12  1:39         ` Horst von Brand
2000-11-13  2:58           ` David Ford
2000-11-11 13:20 ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 20:22 willy tarreau
2000-11-10 23:55 ` Igmar Palsenberg
     [not found] <3A0C427A.E015E58A@timpanogas.org>
     [not found] ` <20001110095227.A15010@sendmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <3A0C37FF.23D7B69@timpanogas.org>
     [not found]     ` <20001110101138.A15087@sendmail.com>
     [not found]       ` <3A0C3F30.F5EB076E@timpanogas.org>
     [not found]         ` <20001110133431.A16169@sendmail.com>
     [not found]           ` <3A0C6B7C.110902B4@timpanogas.org>
2000-11-10 21:52             ` sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:03               ` Neil W Rickert
2000-11-10 22:05                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:18                   ` Alexander Viro
2000-11-10 22:22                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:32                       ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 22:31                         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:23                   ` Richard A Nelson
2000-11-11 13:45                     ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-10 22:18                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-10 22:29                   ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  1:44                     ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-11  1:46                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11  3:16                         ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 11:54                         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2000-11-11 18:03                           ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  1:35                   ` Ralf Baechle
2000-11-11  1:42                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11  1:47                     ` Mohammad A. Haque
2000-11-10 23:25                 ` Davide Libenzi
2000-11-11 12:23                 ` (non)importance of loadaverages bert hubert
2000-11-10 22:52               ` sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue David Lang
2000-11-10 22:07                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-10 22:25                 ` Claus Assmann
2000-11-10 23:01                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-11  7:57                     ` Rogier Wolff
2000-11-11  8:23                   ` [OFF] Load avarage (Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue) Kari E. Hurtta
2000-11-11  0:28               ` Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue David Ford
2000-11-11  0:27                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  0:46                   ` David Ford
2000-11-11  3:25                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11  2:41                       ` David Ford
2000-11-11  2:45                       ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-11  3:09                         ` Andrew Morton
2000-11-11  1:18                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2000-11-13 16:34                 ` [OT] " Bruce Guenter
2000-11-11 13:40               ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 18:11                 ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-11 19:12                   ` Henning P. Schmiedehausen
2000-11-11 19:38                   ` J Sloan
2000-11-13  6:22                     ` Jeff V. Merkey
2000-11-12  4:44                   ` Jesse Pollard

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