My original question was :
>> We are receiving the following messages on our mail server (SS2, OS
>> SunOS 4.1.1) :
>> unexpected close, from <domain.name>: connection reset by peer during
>> collect with <domain.name>
>>
>> Any idea
Thanks to :
Jacques Beigbeder Jacques.Beigbeder@ens.fr
Jay Lessert jayl@lattice.com
and here what they say :
The answer is that a user writes a mail using emacs, and the
mail don't have a \n at the end. I don't know if sendmail 8.6.8
from UCB still have the problem, but Sun's sendmail breaks
on this kind of mail.
Jacques Beigbeder | Internet: beig@ens.fr
Service de Prestations Informatiques |
Ecole Normale Superieure |
45 rue d'Ulm | Tel : (33-1) 44-32-37-96
F75230 Paris Cedex 05 | Fax : (33-1) 44-32-20-80
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The SMTP protocol defines 'end-of-message' as "." followed by "<CR>".
Something is sending mail to your server via SMTP, not sending the
final dot, and eventually timing out. Usually in this situation the
message is delivered more-or-less intact.
Early versions of Elm and some inside-emacs mail UI's have been known
to do this.
-Jay-
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