On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, John Horne wrote:
> On 10-Mar-98 at 16:28:57 Paul Mansfield wrote:
> >
> > We have people who can't send mail to our Sparc/Exim1.82 relay from their
> > CC:Mail hosts.
> I know nothing of CC:Mail, but there is an entry in the 1.890 ChangeLog file
> (point 55) relating to CC:Mail falling over. You may want to check that out.
I've heard from our sister company in Canada.
Apparently Exim build the response to HELO on the fly, and if the machine
is loaded heavily, it means CC:Mail will not get the whole response in a
single read. However, CCMail is broken and expects it all in one go
and throws a wobbly.
There's a hack about to make it work, which is basically to build the response
into a buffer so that it's written in one go; the chances of it being
fragmented into multiple IP datagrams is practically zero, and thus CC:Mail
is made happy.
Sigh.
Paul
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"Whatever it was that wasn't wrong and couldn't be reproduced and works like
it always has...has apparently been fixed."... from a fault report.
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