Re: [exim] Connection lost while reading message data

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Author: Jason Slaughter
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Subject: Re: [exim] Connection lost while reading message data

>> 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?



Hrmm. I don't have access to change the MTU on this VPS (bah), but the
MTU is already set to 1000. What did you set your MTU to? I think 1000
is probably fine for MTU, so I expect there's something else going on.

On a related note though, does anybody know how to change the MTU on a
Windows machine? I get the feeling that the admin on the other side (on
Exchange) isn't too technical when it comes to managing an MTA.