Re: [exim] Connection lost while reading message data

Jason Slaughter wrote:
> I am having a problem receiving mail from one MTA. That wouldn't
> normally be so bad, but unfortunately it's one that I need to receive
> mail from. ;) I started receiving reports that anyone from this server
> (a university in Hong Kong) was unable to send me mail. In my logs I
> noticed:
>
> 2005-01-18 08:55:55 SMTP connection from [...hostname/IP] lost while
> reading message data (header)
> 2005-01-18 09:10:04 SMTP connection from [...hostname/IP] lost while
> reading message data (header)
> 2005-01-18 09:12:17 SMTP connection from [...hostname/IP] lost while
> reading message data (header)
>
> I have been in contact with the admin of this MTA, but only just enough
> to learn that he is using Microsoft Exchange as a mailer, and is not
> receiving complaints from any other admins. This is *only* happening
> with this one server.

In the past, I've had similar problems (though mine were timeouts on
message bodies, not headers) due to an MTU issue. Could this possibly
be the case for you?

- Marc