The general consensus to my problem. (Original query below) was that
if a mail message did not end with a new line character this would
happen. I'm including an old summary that was sent to me which explains
this.
Much thanks to:
hoogs@alc.com (Tim Hoogasian)
Ilkka Virtanen <ilkka@tks.oulu.fi>
murillo%ncsi@uunet.uu.net (David Murillo)
sjh@math.purdue.edu (Steve Holmes)
stern@sunne.east.sun.com (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
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>From: lifac1.ens-cachan.fr!alf@uunet.UUCP (Olivier MARCE)
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[ I send this old summary because some people ask me to do that. I think this pb is very current. Sorry for extra use of yours mail boxes, but it'nice for the new subscriber to read this ]
> From: blymn@baobab.awadi.com.au (Brett Lymn)
> Subject: SUMMARY: nasty sendmail messages
>
> A week ago I wrote the following:
> >
> > I have had on occaision had the following message from
> >sendmail on various clients:
> >
> >Oct 1 14:25:58 coolibah sendmail[443]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading
from myall.awadi.com.au: Connection timed out
> >Warning: Actions not found: select-set
> >Oct 1 15:09:08 coolibah sendmail[503]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading
from myall.awadi.com.au: Connection timed out
> >Oct 1 15:24:08 coolibah sendmail[503]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading
from myall.awadi.com.au: Connection timed out
> >
> >This has started to happen with monotonous regularity on my
> >workstation, what is causing this to happen? Is there a fix?
> >
> >BTW Nothing has changed on the system recently, there seems to be no
> >causal link to anything.
> >
> >Running SunOS 4.1.2.
> >
>
> This seems like a common problem judging from the "me too"s I got.
> Full marks (and a big thank-you) goes to Sverre Slotte Jr. for
> pointing out the problem. The problem was that my mail messages did
> not end with a new line character, this was because I had changed my
> signature file and did not have a NL on the end of the last line.
> This is a problem because the sendmail protocol demands a . on a line
> by itself to indicate the end of the mail body, what was happening in
> my case was sendmail was transmitting the message but because there
> was no trailing NL the receiving sendmail did not see a dot on a line
> by itself so it thought there was more message to come and would wait
> until it eventually timed out.
>
> So anyone that had this problem should check carefully that their mail
> messages end with a trailing newline. If you use emacs you should
> check the variable require-final-newline is set true to ensure emacs
> adds a trailing newline if one does not exist.
>
> Thanks to:
> ups!upstage!glenn@fourx.Aus.Sun.COM (Glenn Satchell)
> Neil W Rickert <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
> sverre@rc.nokia.fi (Sverre Slotte RC 943)
> Michael.Tripoli@Corp.Sun.COM (Michael Tripoli)
>
> --
> Brett Lymn | "Smoke me a kipper, I will be
> Computer Systems Administrator | back for breakfast"
> AWA Defence Industries | - Arnold "Ace" Rimmer
Thanks for him and for all whose give me this information
OM
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ORIGINAL MESSAGE
==>
==>
==>Hi
==>I have the following messages periodically spitting out on my screen:
==>
==>==> Dec 18 10:45:27 antares sendmail[1842]: AA01840: SYSERR: net hang
==>==> reading from mailgate.lgc.com: Connection timed out during greeting
==>==> wait with mailgate.lgc.com
==>
==>antares is our internal mail server, ( Sparc 370, SunOS 4.1.1, running sendm
==>ail
==>version 1.10, no patches applied) it does all the alias resolution, routing,
==>etc. mailgate.lgc.com is the MIS mail sever. It runs QuickMail (I don't know
==>
==>the first thing about QuickMail) and all mail from our unix environment to
==>the non-Unix Macs and PCs goes through the QuickMail server mailgate.lgc.com
==>.
==>When these messages get printed antares (our mail server) freezes for 3-5
==>seconds and then chugs along.
==>
==>I was curious if anyone has a similar setup or has seen a similar error befo
==>re.
==>Is it a network resource problem, does my sendmail.cf file need to be tweake
==>d
==>(Maybe increase the timeout period somewhere)? Any help or suggestions will
==>be
==>greately appreciated.
==>
==>Thanks
==>
==> -Vispi Dumasia
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