douglis@MINT.BERKELEY.EDU (Fred Douglis) (05/10/89)
We're experiencing a problem sending mail to an internet host (decwrl.dec.com) -- the symptom is that the mailer hangs for a long time and then complains "reply: read error", apparently in the phase just after it sends the body of the message. I heard that about the same time we started having this problem on Sprite, a small number of Suns running SunOS 3.2 had the same problem, and I was told that upgrading the kernel to 3.4 fixed the problem. This is why I believe the problem might have something to do with the TCP connection (since just about everything at user level is the same, but the kernel is new). Can anyone possibly shed some light on this? If anyone else has experience trouble completing sendmail connections, to decwrl or to any other hosts, I'd like to hear how they fixed the problem. I'd be most grateful for any suggestions. Please include me directly in any replies, since I'm not on the mailing list. Fred Douglis douglis@sprite.Berkeley.EDU, or douglis%sprite@ginger.Berkeley.EDU