Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:53:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:53:26 -0500 Received: from ryouko.dgim.crc.ca ([142.92.39.75]:10883 "EHLO ryouko.dgim.crc.ca") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:53:12 -0500 Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 13:52:30 -0500 (EST) From: "William F. Maton" Reply-To: wmaton@ryouko.dgim.crc.ca To: "Jeff V. Merkey" cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] In-Reply-To: <3A0C4252.100D863D@timpanogas.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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? > > 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/