I have seen this on 2 different servers now. Here are the configurations:
SERVER 1:
Fedora Core 3
Apache 2.0.x
PHP 4x
MySQL 4x
Latest stuff per Bill's toaster shupp.org/toaster
SERVER 2:
OpenSuse 10.2
Apache 2-2.2.3-20
PHP 5x
MySQL 5x
Latest stuff per Bill's toaster shupp.org/toaster
SYMPTOMS:
Often, when sending emails with attachments (around a few MB or larger)
or particularly when forwarding such emails from a client (such as
Thunderbird) I get the following error after the sending progress bar
reaches 100%:
"Sending of message failed.
The message could not be sent because connecting to SMTP server
mail.myserver.com failed. The server may be unavailable or is refusing
SMTP connections. Please verify that your SMTP server setting is
correct and try again, or else contact your network administrator."
After clicking on "OK" to close the error message you close the email
and it asks you to save it (as it thinks it is an unsent email). I
typically just don't save it and close it. Despite the error, the email
does get sent and arrives at its destination.
Is this a timeout issue on the SMTP settings? Is there some reason
qmail is timing out or closing the connection (if that is the case)?
Anything I can do about that or any other ideas as to what may be
causing this? or how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.
John Harmon
