[EMAIL PROTECTED] tapped out this message on 1/21/2003 5:25 PM >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (chris) >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Emailer Talk) >Ok, two people were nice enough to send me logs of a SMTP session with >AT&T's mail server. > >After looking at the logs, I have to stand by my first assumption, that >the Network Stream error is being incorrectly indictated by Emailer >because AT&T is closing the connection before Emailer expects it to. > > >The problem lies in the fact that AT&T doesn't doesn't wait for an >acknowledgement to the disconnect request, and instead sends a disconnect >request and then immediatly drops the connection without waiting. TCP/IP >sees this as a premature drop, and passes the info on to Emailer as such. > >Now, the fault does not lie entirely with AT&T... Emailer should have the >brains to know that the SMTP session was completed, and the final ok from >the server was received, and so it should just ignore the fact that the >actual connection dropped. But it doesn't. > >So for all you effected by this, it is 100% safe to ingore the Network >Stream error, your mail was properly delivered to the mail server, and >you are seeing an error resulting from the minor details of who is >disconnecting first and if they are waiting for a confirmation from the >other end.
I agree with Chris, however, this is a new thing so it must be something they did when they took over from Mediaone, meaning that it doesn't HAVE to happen. What could they have done? ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
