I solved this by making my bind forward-only... Some folks report "echo 1 >
/proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_dynaddr" helps too (especially if you have dynamic IP
addressing).
There is some kind of option in sendmail that is designed for sites that
don't always have their link up (queueonly comes to mind?) Look in the
sendmail documentation.
Kevin
-----Original Message-----
From: David Hawke [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 1999 2:16 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Diald and Email...
Giulio Orsero wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Mar 1999 11:12:56 -0600, hai scritto:
> <snip>
>
> >now.) When I try to sample my POP3 account at my ISP (NT ->
LINUX/Diald ->
> >ISP) it never works. I always get an error stating something like
"the TCP
> >connection unexpectedly terminated".
>
> Diald can't do anything to allow or prevent you from polling your
mail, nothing but
> bringing the link up :-))
>
Yes - but is this the situation where the client (eg Netscape
Communicator) times out and
mail retrieval must be initiated again. This becomes annoying after
a while - Get/Cancel/Wait
for link to come up (external modem helps here) /Get
Sending mail is even worse - it locks completely for some time
before it times out -
presumably this is an SMTP timeout issue.
The point is that the critical packet from the email client isn't
getting through -
presumably disappearing during the connection process.
FYI, in my case, Linux 2.0.36, diald 0.16.5, pppd 2.3.4 and Netscape
Communicator 4.5. I
built the box at the far end too - its pretty much the same but with
Cyrus as the mail agent.
David H
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