Re: [Exim] verizon.net & hotmail.com problems

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Author: Dr Andrew C Aitchison
Date:  
To: Jeff Lasman
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] verizon.net & hotmail.com problems
On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, Jeff Lasman wrote:

> It looks as if we can't hold incoming connections from either
> hotmail.com or from verizon.com (as well as a few other, smaller,
> domains).
>
> My clients are telling me they're not having problems getting email from
> these domains using other email addresses.
>
> Are you having similar problems?
>
> Do you have any idea what I should look for?
>
> here's an example of what I find (over and over again) in
> /var/log/exim/mainlog:
>
> 2003-12-15 14:24:43 SMTP connection from (hotmail.com) [64.4.19.122]
> lost while reading message data
>
> Thanks for any ideas you may have.


Could it be a network problem ? Something like packets
of the wrong size (just on some boundary perhaps)
or fragmentation in a place that upsets your network kit ?

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Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison        Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
A.C.Aitchison@???    http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna