Re: [OT] Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-13 Thread Bruce Guenter
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:28:11PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > Some wild blatherings about sendmail... Warning: the following will likely be seen by some as flamebait. I've long ago divorced myself from sendmail to save my own sanity. > - Uses lots of memory to send a big file. > Incorrect.

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-12 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 11:38:31AM -0800, J Sloan wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > It is good that you raised the issue - THanks Jeff > > Cheers, > > jjs > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please r

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread David Ford
I have found that lowering the MTU helps a lot. If it is a particular route, simply add an additional route with the lower limit set. The tradeoff of efficiency v.s. reliability is improved. -d Horst von Brand wrote: > In my experience, if you try to send large messages over unreliable > netw

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-12 Thread Horst von Brand
"Richard B. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: [...] > > Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we > > can see what's going wrong in the TCP connection to the smtp server: > > > > tcpdump port smtp > I tried to send

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Jesse Pollard
On Sat, 11 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: >On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:40:42PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >> >> >> >We got to the bottom of the sendmail problem. The line: >> >> > -O QueueLA=20 >> >> >and >> >> > -O RefuseLA=18 >>

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread J Sloan
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > NT and NetWare servers don't stop forwarding > emails when the load average gets too high -- they just work out of the > box, and hopefully, no so will Linux (our distribution does now since > this problem in fixed). Don't get me started on nt - saying it "just works" i

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >I guess all customers are idiots then, since about 100+ people who were >using our release downloaded it, and had these problems with sendmail. This >disconnect of yours is about what I would expect from someone in a University. >Some of us don't have

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:40:42PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: > > > >We got to the bottom of the sendmail problem. The line: > > > -O QueueLA=20 > > >and > > > -O RefuseLA=18 > > >Need to be cranked up in sendmail.cf to something hi

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 01:24:18PM +, Henning P. Schmiedehausen wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: > > >I did Dick. The config is fine. The daemon is also fine and running. > >What's really weird is that even if I do a "sendmail -v -q" command > >(which should force the qu

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 12:54:20PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:46:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Yes, the documentation is broken. Linus did in fact implement this > > Well, also the implementation could be improved IMHO, think when we have one > houndred o

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dominik Kubla) writes: >I can do better! I had a smart ass trying to backup his harddrives >using email, no less than 2Gig! So what? Get enough spool space in /var/spool/mqueue and a platform with 64 bit file support and it works just fine. I have some boxes where the users se

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard A Nelson) writes: >I have several boxen running sendmail with fair to moderate loading - >they even occasionally don't accept mail... and thats good, as it lets >the system catch up with its current load. As soon as things stabalize, >sendmail again accepts connections

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Claus Assmann) writes: >> Sending a 50 MB file is OK here. So it's not a TCP/IP bug. >Ok, hopefully this reaches everyone who has been "involved" >by Jeff into this "problem". So it is _once_ _again_ a Jeff "I have no clue but I know Linux-Kernel list is cheaper than tech su

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >I did Dick. The config is fine. The daemon is also fine and running. >What's really weird is that even if I do a "sendmail -v -q" command >(which should force the queue to flush) it still doesn't. O Timeout.ident=0s O Timeout.initial=30s (these are

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >We got to the bottom of the sendmail problem. The line: > -O QueueLA=20 >and > -O RefuseLA=18 >Need to be cranked up in sendmail.cf to something high since the >background VM on a very busy Linux box seems to exceed this which causes >large email

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-11 Thread Henning P. Schmiedehausen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff V. Merkey) writes: >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 l

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:46:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Yes, the documentation is broken. Linus did in fact implement this Well, also the implementation could be improved IMHO, think when we have one houndred of tasks sleeping in uninterruptible mode because the nfs server is down for

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Rogier Wolff
H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > Why does Linux report a LA of 10 if there are only two processes > > running? > > > > Load Average = runnable processes (R) + processes in disk wa

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew Morton
Andrew Morton wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > > > They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. > > I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. > > top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have > > verified this problem,

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Andrew Morton
"Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. > I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. > top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have > verified this problem, and all you are saying is that your

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
> They're not modprobes, they're misnamed processes sleeping from NWFS. If they're sleeping, why are they in D state? That ups the load average. > I got the fix from someone so now they display their proper names. > top displays the names correctly, ps does not. Several people have > verified

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 04:46:53PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > To be honest Jeff, most of my sendmail systems have default load values > and large (read created by microsoft mua) emails make it through > constantly with no distinguishable delays. I just launched 45 "cat > core|mail [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 06:02:28PM -0800, David Ford wrote: > > > With a handle like > > > "Assmann", deviation is proably something you already understand quite > > > well ... > > > > Don't be a moron. Claus is German, Assman really is his last name and > > not some "handle", and it's pronoun

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:15:53PM -0800, Steve VanDevender wrote: > Jeff V. Merkey writes: > > There was also an issue relative to how sendmail is interpreting load > > average on a linux box. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out that perhaps you > > are not factoring sleeping processes, which Linux

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 05:46:29PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Ralf Baechle wrote: > > > > Jeff, > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:29:20PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and > > > the way load average is calculated (s

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
> > With a handle like > > "Assmann", deviation is proably something you already understand quite > > well ... > > Don't be a moron. Claus is German, Assman really is his last name and > not some "handle", and it's pronounced "Oss-man". Claus is a well liked, knowledgable and well experienced

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Mohammad A. Haque
I have this exact argument at work every so often. People coming in from an NT environment have difficulty understanding what it is/means and that it's not neccessarily bad when load gets above 1, etc, etc, etc. Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wro

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ralf Baechle wrote: > > Jeff, > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:29:20PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and > > the way load average is calculated (senders name removed) > > > > [... sendmail person ...] > > > > Ok, here's my bl

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
Jeff, On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:29:20PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and > the way load average is calculated (senders name removed) > > [... sendmail person ...] > > Ok, here's my blunt answer: Linux sucks. Why does it hav

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Ralf Baechle wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > > Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing. There > > isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what > > it should in the time you'd expect. However, if your

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Ralf Baechle
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 02:18:20PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Numerically high load averages aren't inherently a bad thing. There > isn't anything bad about a system with a loadavg of 20 if it does what > it should in the time you'd expect. However, if your daemons start > blocking because

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:David Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > - Requires high load average allowance > Incorrect. Same machine barely spiked a tenth of a point for this load and >dropped > back to .05. Only time I adjusted the configured

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Steve VanDevender
Jeff V. Merkey writes: > There was also an issue relative to how sendmail is interpreting load > average on a linux box. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pointed out that perhaps you > are not factoring sleeping processes, which Linux does -- a deviation > from BSD's interpretation of load average. At wors

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
To be honest Jeff, most of my sendmail systems have default load values and large (read created by microsoft mua) emails make it through constantly with no distinguishable delays. I just launched 45 "cat core|mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]" and core is a 10 meg binary file. It results in a 14 meg total

Re: Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
David Ford wrote: David, We got to the bottom of it. sendmail is using a BSD method to react to load average which is different than what linux is providing. You have to crank up O QueueLA = 18 O RefuseLA = 12 on a busy Linux server since the defaults will result in large emails never get

Wild thangs, was: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Ford
Some wild blatherings about sendmail... - Uses lots of memory to send a big file. Incorrect. I just verified it with a 10 meg file which became a 14 meg attachment. Sendmail consumed an additional 5 megs combined while handling the input and output v.s. an idle daemon. Idle is 1.8M, recv w

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if > > > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day > > > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will. > > > > Are you talking client -> MTA encryption, or MTA -> MTA encryption ?? > >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus Assmann wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 11, 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > > > > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Claus Assmann
On Sat, Nov 11, 2000, Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > > > it. I always thought you could

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > > it. I always thought you could read from a file, then write to > > a socket. Maybe I'm

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Claus Assmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Why does Linux report a LA of 10 if there are only two processes > running? > Load Average = runnable processes (R) + processes in disk wait (D). -hpa -- <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
[ ... named redacted by request ... ] wrote: > > > Well, here's what the sendmail folks **REAL** opinion of Linux is and > > the way load average is calculated (senders name removed) > > > > [... sendmail person ...] > > > >> Ok, here's my blunt answer: Linux sucks. Why does it have a load > >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in/var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, [iso-8859-1] willy tarreau wrote: > Dick, have you tried a simple "strace -f -p " ? > This often gives enough info. > > BTW, there's one version of sendmail that tests the > capability security hole of a previous kernel version > (2.2.15 ?), and refuses to launch if it disco

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Igmar Palsenberg wrote: > > > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if > > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day > > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will. > > Are you talking client -> MTA encryption, or MTA -> MTA

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus Assmann wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > I have dual T1 lines going into the box, and I just added a 4-way ADSL > > circuit as well (4 x 550K). Claus claimed there were TCPIP timeout bugs You said there were TCPIP timeout bugs. I can go retrieve the email.

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a day > or two until they go out. I can guarantee you will. Are you talking client -> MTA encryption, or MTA -> MTA encryption ?? > Jeff Igma

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"H. Peter Anvin" wrote: > > Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > By author:Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA > > >settings.

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Claus Assmann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > I have dual T1 lines going into the box, and I just added a 4-way ADSL > circuit as well (4 x 550K). Claus claimed there were TCPIP timeout bugs Please DON'T quote me wrong. This is getting very annoying. Is that your way to spread rumours and false

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in/var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > Yes. Plus 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails sine it uses > > encryption. > > I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over > the place, many of them so old it is scary. No problems seen at this end. > This is to be expected, BTW: They can't just go in

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Igmar Palsenberg
> > 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. Depends on how you configure it. An enabled encryption doesn't always mean it has problems taking to other sendmails. This sendmail here has no pro

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Claus Assmann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, David Lang wrote: > how many CPUs in these high loadave boxes? unless you have a very > impressive machine (8+SMP) the defaults should be plenty high. > > also I thought the QueueLA default was 8 and the RefuseLA was 12 or have > they been bumped up since I last examined the

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Alexander Viro wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > Then perhaps qmail's time has finally come If sendmail cannot run > > on a machine with minimal background loading from a dozen or so FTP > > clients downloading files, it's clearly sick. BTW. I have another

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Davide Libenzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and > > > OpenLinux

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread H. Peter Anvin
Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> By author:Neil W Rickert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA > >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and Open

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Alexander Viro
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Then perhaps qmail's time has finally come If sendmail cannot run > on a machine with minimal background loading from a dozen or so FTP > clients downloading files, it's clearly sick. BTW. I have another box > running qmail, and it doesn't

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Neil W Rickert wrote: > "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA > >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are > >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels. You may

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
> > David Lang > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:52:01 -0700 > > From: Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail wi

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Then perhaps qmail's time has finally come If sendmail cannot run on a machine with minimal background loading from a dozen or so FTP clients downloading files, it's clearly sick. BTW. I have another box running qmail, and it doesn't have these problems. Jeff Neil W Rickert wrote: > > "

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread David Lang
Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2000 14:52:01 -0700 > From: Jeff V. Merkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in > /var/spool/mqueue > > > > Hey guys,

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Neil W Rickert
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The problem of dropping connections on 2.4 was related to the O RefuseLA >settings. The defaults in the RedHat, Suse, and OpenLinux RPMs are >clearly set too low for modern Linux kernels. You may want them cranked >up to 100 or something if you want

Re: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Hey guys, We got to the bottom of the sendmail problem. The line: -O QueueLA=20 and -O RefuseLA=18 Need to be cranked up in sendmail.cf to something high since the background VM on a very busy Linux box seems to exceed this which causes large emails to get stuck in the /var/spool/mqueue

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Claus Assmann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Davide Libenzi wrote: [Please use a MTA that sends the e-mail only once to a given machine, we got three copies of this] > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse,

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"William F. Maton" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > > > > sendmail spawns a child

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and > > OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken. > > Sorry, this is plain wrong. sendmail does NOT read the enti

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > > > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Claus Assmann
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > "Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > > it. I always

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > > > It ran out of memory. The file got sent fine after I got rid of > all the memory-consumers. Looks like a sendmail bug where they > expect to load a whole file into memory all at once before sending > it. I always thought you could read from a file, then writ

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's > > why the file never gets sent! >

[Fwd: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus, Richard appears to have found a problem while sending a 45MB file to me with 8.11.10. I guess it's time for you to join the thread. Please review attached. Jeff On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > >

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > > > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. T

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andre, SSH is running on this system, so send me your IP address to add to the hosts.allow file and I'll send you an account so you can get into the box and see just what's happening with ssh. Andre Hedrick has root privileges on this machine, so if I'm ever not around, he can get into it. I a

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's > > why the file never gets sent! > > Sure that cou

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread willy tarreau
Dick, have you tried a simple "strace -f -p " ? This often gives enough info. BTW, there's one version of sendmail that tests the capability security hole of a previous kernel version (2.2.15 ?), and refuses to launch if it discovers it. It may be possible that sendmail does other tests like this

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 03:07:46PM -0500, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > It isn't a TCP/IP stack problem. It may be a memory problem. Every time > sendmail spawns a child to send the file data, it crashes. That's > why the file never gets sent! Sure that could be the case. You should be able to ver

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > Andrea, > > > > All done. It's already setup this way. > > Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we can see > what's going wrong in the TCP conne

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 12:34:40PM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > Andrea, > > All done. It's already setup this way. Ok. So please now show a tcpdump trace during the `sendmail -q` so we can see what's going wrong in the TCP connection to the smtp server: tcpdump port smtp Andrea -

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Tim Walberg
On 11/10/2000 16:30 -0300, Horst von Brand wrote: >> "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > Horst von Brand wrote: >> >> [...] >> >> > > I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over >> >> > Turn on encryption, and try

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Andrea, All done. It's already setup this way. Jeff Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > > [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v > > > > > > -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] > > So first thing to do is to check that in

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
On Fri, Nov 10, 2000 at 11:45:39AM -0700, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > > > [..] Issuing the command "sendmail -v > > > > > -q" does not flush the mail queue. [..] So first thing to do is to check that in /etc/sendmail.cf this line is commented out this way: #O HostStatusDirectory=... (if you bu

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"Richard B. Johnson" wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, 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 > > > p

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, 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

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Horst von Brand wrote: [...] > > I've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all over > Turn on encryption, and try sending attachements > 1MB and tell me if > you see any problems, like emails sitting in /var/spool/mqueue for a d

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Claus is sloging into the box and we will be trying to track this down. If it is a problem in the Linux TCPIP stack, we'll post a report later this afternoon as to where it looks like the problem is. Jeff "Jeff V. Merkey" wrote: > > Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org s

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Since I posted this on LKML, Claus over at sendmail.org seems more motivated to track it down. (since it might appear on the front page of Linux today). I would love your assistance Richard. It could be a local problem since smrsh also seems to be f_cked up as well, but I am seeing the same t

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > > > > > 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. > > Eh?!? T

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Send me an email from it with an attachment > 1MB, and I will forward back to you when (and if) It gets delivered before next week. :-) Jeff Richard A Nelson wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote: > > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > > > > > What about sendmail 8.11.1? Is the

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Horst von Brand wrote: > > "Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SAID: > > "William F. Maton" wrote: > > [...] > > > > 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've been using sendm

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Horst von Brand
"Jeff V. Merkey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> SAID: > "William F. Maton" wrote: [...] > > 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've been using sendmail-8.11.1 (no encryption) to talk to MTAs all ove

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
Richard A Nelson wrote: > > Any `real` reason you're still at 8.9.3? Current is 8.11.1 > > If you send me a note of the type that fails, (to [EMAIL PROTECTED]), > it'll get received on both a 2.2.18-21/8.11.1 and 2.4.0-test10/8.11.2.Beta0 8.11.1 has problems talking to older sendmails and q

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
"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 se

Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread William F. Maton
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 s

[Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

2000-11-10 Thread Jeff V. Merkey
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