I expect the reason I had no responce on this is that as I expected there
was nothing wrong with our qmail server. Last night I found a bad hub which
was causing packets to be lost at high(er) utilization levels. I think the
email pushed it over the limit and perhaps it was sending some kind of bad
packets out, thus taking out the T1 and resulting in the error message. Only
time and more users coming in to work will really tell for sure, but things
look pretty good now.
Matt
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Simonsen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 6:31 PM
To: Qmail@List. Cr. Yp. To
Subject: Large messages terminated with error?
Hello all-
Some background. I have a Qmail server running RedHat 7.0 version 1.03,
along with courier-imap 1.2.3 (just the IMAP part) + vpopmail 4.9.8. It is
off-site from our office, and for 130 days the whole email system has been
flawless, even through the 3 times our office has changed IPs. Then we
recently got a new data line in our office (sDSL to a local router that is
connected to a T1) and problems began. Not necessairly the email server's
fault, perhaps, but definately related.
The only change is that I have changed is that I added our new domain to the
tcp.smtp file and then ran "tcprules /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.cdb
/home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp.tmp < /home/vpopmail/etc/tcp.smtp". Even without
this, though, it sent mail fine since vpopmail does pop authentication.
The tcp.smtp file looks like:
127.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
64.156.209.:allow,RELAYCLIENT=""
Now for the problem:
I cannot send a large (10 mb) message, the kicker is that when I do it also
takes our office internet connection down for 30-90 seconds! The only
symptoms I have been able to track down is that it appears to transfer at
least most of message to the queue on the qmail server (as du -h shows me).
Also, outlook 2000 gives an error message saying, "TCP/IP connection was
unexpectedly terminated by the server. Server responded: '354 go ahead'
Account: zMatt @ Careercast.com', SMTP server 'email.careercast.com' Number
0x800ccc0f. Netscape The same time the error appears our data connection
dies. We can't even ping the first router. Then it comes up after a short
while...
I have no idea what is happening here, I don't think our ISP does either.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, please let me know if I can provide
any more information.
Thanks
Matt
