Slooooooooowwww attachment upload
Howdy, I've sent this problem to the list once before and never got any responses that helped, so I'm trying again. Whenever I send an email (To my Linux server running qmail-ldap) with an attachment, no matter how small, it gets to a certain point, and simply hangs. Here's the kicker though: When I use Linux Netscape as the client, this happens. When I use any Mac based email client, it's still abnormally slow, but it doesn't hang. Eventually it goes. I've determined that it's not a network problem, as I can download mail with attachments with no problems. I can also upload files via scp at a normal 10Mbps network rate. This is the command line used to start the smtp server: /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 401 -g 417 0 smtp /var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd Anyone have any insights? Thanks in advance. -- Daniel Ceregatti Systems and Technology Manager Kick Media Corporation (310)280-5421 (310)280-5440 Fax
Re: Slooooooooowwww attachment upload
On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Daniel Ceregatti wrote: > Howdy, > > I've sent this problem to the list once before and never got any responses that >helped, so I'm trying again. > > Whenever I send an email (To my Linux server running qmail-ldap) with an attachment, >no matter how small, it gets to a certain point, and simply hangs. Here's the kicker >though: When I use Linux Netscape as the client, this happens. When I use any Mac >based email client, it's still abnormally slow, but it doesn't hang. Eventually it >goes. I've determined that it's not a network problem, as I can download mail with >attachments with no problems. I can also upload files via scp at a normal 10Mbps >network rate. What do the logs say? Does this happen when you send a really long message without attachments through qmail? PGP signature
Re: Slooooooooowwww attachment upload
It's a MUA problem. Mails with attachments are still normal ascii mails. It completely indifferent to the MTA (unless that MTA looks at the body. Do you have some kind of filter, virus scanner, etc?) RC On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Daniel Ceregatti wrote: > Howdy, > > I've sent this problem to the list once before and never got any responses that >helped, so I'm trying again. > > Whenever I send an email (To my Linux server running qmail-ldap) with an attachment, >no matter how small, it gets to a certain point, and simply hangs. Here's the kicker >though: When I use Linux Netscape as the client, this happens. When I use any Mac >based email client, it's still abnormally slow, but it doesn't hang. Eventually it >goes. I've determined that it's not a network problem, as I can download mail with >attachments with no problems. I can also upload files via scp at a normal 10Mbps >network rate. > > This is the command line used to start the smtp server: > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 401 -g 417 0 smtp >/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > Anyone have any insights? Thanks in advance. > > -- > > Daniel Ceregatti > > Systems and Technology Manager > Kick Media Corporation > (310)280-5421 > (310)280-5440 Fax > > > -- +--- | Ricardo Cerqueira | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 | Novis - Engenharia ISP / Rede Técnica | Pç. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7º E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal | Tel: +351 21 010 - Fax: +351 21 011 PGP signature
Re: Slooooooooowwww attachment upload
Yes, I forgot to mention that I have Amavis scanning the emails for virii. But Amavis basically boils down to renaming qmail-remote and qmail-local to qmail-remote-real and qmail-local-real, respectively, and linking the Amavis virus scanner program to qmail-local and qmail-remote. I have conducted tests where I've removed these links and renamed the files back to their original names then restarted qmail, and this has not solved the problem. Since I did not do the original installation of qmail on this machine, I'm not aware of any other filters. Also, the logs don't show anything out of the ordinary. I'm looking through /var/log/maillog. Is there some other log file that might help? I'm somewhat new to qmail. Where would I look for other filters? Thanks Ricardo Cerqueira wrote: > It's a MUA problem. Mails with attachments are still normal ascii mails. It > completely indifferent to the MTA (unless that MTA looks at the body. Do > you have some kind of filter, virus scanner, etc?) > > RC > > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Daniel Ceregatti wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I've sent this problem to the list once before and never got any responses that >helped, so I'm trying again. > > > > Whenever I send an email (To my Linux server running qmail-ldap) with an >attachment, no matter how small, it gets to a certain point, and simply hangs. Here's >the kicker though: When I use Linux Netscape as the client, this happens. When I use >any Mac based email client, it's still abnormally slow, but it doesn't hang. >Eventually it goes. I've determined that it's not a network problem, as I can >download mail with attachments with no problems. I can also upload files via scp at a >normal 10Mbps network rate. > > > > This is the command line used to start the smtp server: > > > > /usr/local/bin/tcpserver -x /etc/tcp.smtp.cdb -u 401 -g 417 0 smtp >/var/qmail/bin/qmail-smtpd > > > > Anyone have any insights? Thanks in advance. > > > > -- > > > > Daniel Ceregatti > > > > Systems and Technology Manager > > Kick Media Corporation > > (310)280-5421 > > (310)280-5440 Fax > > > > > > > > -- > +--- > | Ricardo Cerqueira > | PGP Key fingerprint - B7 05 13 CE 48 0A BF 1E 87 21 83 DB 28 DE 03 42 > | Novis - Engenharia ISP / Rede Técnica > | Pç. Duque Saldanha, 1, 7º E / 1050-094 Lisboa / Portugal > | Tel: +351 21 010 - Fax: +351 21 011 > > >--- >Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Daniel Ceregatti Systems and Technology Manager Kick Media Corporation (310)280-5421 (310)280-5440 Fax
Re: Slooooooooowwww attachment upload
This seems to happen to emails with large messages and no attachments as well. The logs say nothing. Alexander Pennace wrote: > On Wed, Aug 30, 2000 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Daniel Ceregatti wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > I've sent this problem to the list once before and never got any responses that >helped, so I'm trying again. > > > > Whenever I send an email (To my Linux server running qmail-ldap) with an >attachment, no matter how small, it gets to a certain point, and simply hangs. Here's >the kicker though: When I use Linux Netscape as the client, this happens. When I use >any Mac based email client, it's still abnormally slow, but it doesn't hang. >Eventually it goes. I've determined that it's not a network problem, as I can >download mail with attachments with no problems. I can also upload files via scp at a >normal 10Mbps network rate. > > What do the logs say? Does this happen when you send a really long > message without attachments through qmail? > > >--- >Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature -- Daniel Ceregatti Systems and Technology Manager Kick Media Corporation (310)280-5421 (310)280-5440 Fax
