On Wed, 07 Jul 1999 23:47:06 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >> I think you don't get the point. >> >> He is trying to empty sendmail's queue, i.e. send pending messages to the >> receiver-MTA. > >So he is. My mistake. > >Why is the sending MTA attempting to send a blank message, then? (If that's >what it's trying to do?) May be an idea to check in its spool directory >whether the relevant message-ID is corrupt in some way.
As I said, this need not be the case. It could simply be that the connection times out, and that the receiver-SMTP therefore still expects something from the sender-SMTP. >> A typical dialog looks like this: >> >> helo foobar > >Shouldn't that be "helo my.host.com" ? Well, sure, I was just giving an example. I don't have the specs (RFC) handy, but I think you should give your domain, not your hostname. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~. http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ The Choice /V\ of a GNU /( )\ Generation ^^-^^
