I have a running qmail-1.03 system (on FreeBSD) and I'm getting a very
strange problem receiving mail from users on sympatico.ca
I see a qmail-smtpd process and a qmail-queue process for each
incoming connection, but these just sit there, not doing anything. I
presume they're timing out after a really long time.
I used to be running rblsmtpd under tcpserver, and I've taken out both
and am now running a (known good) configuration under inetd.
Mail receiving works from ALL other domains, but I have never
successfully received mail from sympatico under my qmail.
Now, at work, the qmail server (which is behind a cisco pix firewall)
has no trouble with sympatico things, and I'm thinking that the
difference there is that the pix prevents an EHLO handshake.
I've recorded a session on the problem server with recordio, and here
is the result:
737 > 220 xyzzy.orange-carb.org ESMTP^M
737 < EHLO tomts7-srv.bellnexxia.net^M
737 > 250-xyzzy.orange-carb.org^M
737 > 250-PIPELINING^M
737 > 250 8BITMIME^M
737 < MAIL FROM:<>^M
737 > 250 ok^M
737 < RCPT TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>^M
737 > 250 ok^M
737 < DATA^M
737 > 354 go ahead^M
After this point, the session does nothing, seemingly forever or for a
long time. The socket is still open... netstat reports:
tcp 0 0 xyzzy.smtp tomts7.bellnexxi.6443 ESTABLISHED
The question is, why doesn't sympatico start sending data? It has the
go ahead...
Has anyone else out there noticed problems receiving from sympatico?
That server claims to be running InterMail
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) for receiving anyway... Are
there problems with InterMail?
Any hints? If you want to test yourself it works even with
bounces. Just mail to something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] and
see if you get a bounce back.
Colin
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