So, I've heard from several people that sympatico works fine for them.
Is there any other obvious explanation why a remote end would hang
after sending the DATA command and getting a 354 answer back?
Is there a way to force qmail to not accept an EHLO from a certain
host, requiring them to use HELO?
Thanks in advance...
Colin
>
> 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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> || when we're little kids maybe we need stories
> Colin Henein || to help us go to sleep. but sooner or later we
> || need stories to help us wake up... -- Utah Phillips
>
>
>
Colin
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|| when we're little kids maybe we need stories
Colin Henein || to help us go to sleep. but sooner or later we
|| need stories to help us wake up... -- Utah Phillips
