On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, Ben Cranston wrote: > > Have now found out, that my problem has something to do with mail size. > > >>> MAIL From:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SIZE=6697 > > That mail won't send. But a small mail (like this), will be sent without > > any problem ? > > This is a real shot-in-the-dark, but I've seen size problems like > this on two occasions, one on a web server I wrote and another when > I was doing the SMTP email for our campus mainframe back in 1984. > > It is buffer size related. For short data streams, a buffer never gets > filled, so when the first buffer gets sent, all the data goes. For > longer data streams, the first buffer fills and goes, but the second (or > last?) buffer just sits there because nobody did a flush or set the > "push flag" (never mind, you gotta be a real TCP/IP weenie to know what > the push flag is all about). > > If you have the source code to the program "writing" the mail message > could you check to see if the output is getting flushed or closed?
My sendmail.cf (looking for "Size") =================================== # maximum message size #O MaxMessageSize=1000000 # open connection cache size O ConnectionCacheSize=2 # how many jobs can you process in the queue? #O MaxQueueRunSize=10000 Can my problem have something to do with this ? - * Linux - a more stable way to live * - -- Mvh Rolf Edlund Tel:070-3049194
