Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:52:00 -0700 | From | "Jeff V. Merkey" <> | Subject | Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] |
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"William F. Maton" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > The sendmail folks are claiming that the TCPIP stack in Linux is broken, > > which is what they claim is causing problems on sendmail on Linux > > platforms. Before anyone says, "don't use that piece of shit sendmail, > > use qmail instead", perhaps we should look at this problem and refute > > these statements -- I think that sendmail is causing this problem. The > > version is sendmail 8.9.3 > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the problem there too?
Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses encryption. > > > > > I can reproduce this bug on RH6.2, RH7.0, Caldera 2.2, 2.3, and 2.4, > > Suse 6.X versions, and any of these distributions with the following > > kernels. > > > > 2.2.14, 2.2.16, 2.2.17, 2.2.18, 2.4.0 (all). What happens is that > > sendmail fails to forward mails with any attachments larger than 400K, > > and they just sit in the /var/spool/mqueue directory for up to a week, > > and eventually get delivered. > > > > ANyone have any ideas if what the sendmail people are saying is on the > > level, or is this just another sendmail bug. > > > > Jeff > > wfms - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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