On Saturday November 18, 2006 at 07:26:38 (AM) Wojciech Puchar wrote:
> while i use sendmail for many years and many of my users have outlook > express (it's their problem not mine, there are lot of normal mail clients > available for windows) and all works. > > recently i installed sendmail as one of server programs when configuring > machine for someone (standard "delinuxation" procedure). his users started > complaining about problems with sending mails. no problems happened when > receiving mail. > > while lot of his users use outlook, only part of them complains, but i've > seen it live. > > when outlook starts to send large mail, it sends first few MB then chokes. > sometimes it unchoke and send more data, chokes again etc. > sometimes it says that server didn't respond for too long time and aborts. > > on server i started trafshow and it showed everything normal, but when > "choking" it showed transfer speed of about 2-3kB/s. > > there is no problem with cables, switches etc. as ftp sessions goes full > speed always both to and from server. > > all windows firewall was turned on or off when testing and it doesn't > change anything. > > position where it chokes is random. > > tested using pine on other machine (pine was set to send directly through > this sendmail) - no problems with 50MB mails, tested many > times. > > while i have network for over 300 users, maybe 20% of them using outlook > (those who refused to use thunderbird we install when connecting), but > none complained. > > > could You please give me any quirk about what to check more and find the > reasons why it happens? > > his network has separate machine (still running linux now) designed for > traffic control. but traffic control rules are not port-based, and for > sendmail server there are no control just routing. > can linux make such problems? i don't think so as FTP goes fine, but just > asking. Where are your log files detailing this supposed problem? -- Gerard Mail from '@gmail' is rejected and/or discarded here. Don't waste your time! _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"