Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
by the way postmaster@ wont work. we dont set them up as the email addresses are stored in ldap and its just a hassle to create an extra postmaster@ address for each domain we host. if you want maybe try [EMAIL PROTECTED] Petr On 11/16/08, Petr Janda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Ca

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
> Can you verify that your machine really announces a MSS of 1460? Actually you caught me while tempering with the MTU, Ive had it set to 800 for testing and some of the lost mail started getting through, but with a setting this low IMAP authentication stopped working altogether. Its back to 1500.

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
> If there is a traffic shaper at your end, it may replace your > TCP stack's MSS=1460 announcement by something smaller, like 890. Could this also be caused by the ISP? Petr

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
> Something is badly screwing up TCP, perhaps by throwing away packets > with flags that it does not like. A misconfigured firewall? Seems unlikely as this timeout problem really happens a lot. Im also going to have a look at the Cisco ADSL router, maybe try replacing it with another one to make s

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
Hello, Ive taken another tcpdump, this time with options: window scaling and SACK disabled. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, Petr postfix_dump2.tgz Description: GNU Zip compressed data

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-15 Thread Petr Janda
> In the OPs packet dump, the window scale on the receiving system is 2^0, > but the sending system uses 2^7. Not much we can do about that from the > Postfix side... > So what is the problem here? Should they be same? What can be done about this? I dont mean as in you but in general how can we ge

Re: Timeout after DATA

2008-11-14 Thread Petr Janda
> Until then, sysctl is your friend. > > *BSD: sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.sack.enable=0 > L*n*x: sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_sack=0 (and I suppose something > equivalent if you use Linux IPv6 support). > > Wietse Thanks for your suggestions, Ive had both SACK and Window Scaling turned off for t

Timeout after DATA

2008-11-14 Thread Petr Janda
Hi all, I have got reports about lost mail(not received, im the receiver not the sender) recently and trying to find out whats going on seems to be beyond me. Basically a lot of email is lost with "timeout after DATA" For example: timeout after DATA (0 bytes) from mail.securepay.com.au[203.89.212

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2008-11-14 Thread Petr Janda
Hi all, I have got reports about lost mail(not received, im the receiver not the sender) recently and trying to find out whats going on seems to be beyond me. Basically a lot of email is lost with "timeout after DATA" For example: timeout after DATA (0 bytes) from mail.securepay.com.au[203.89.212