Author: Drav Sloan Date: To: joe7 CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] SMTP connection from (host) [ip] lost while
readingmessage data (header)
joe7@??? wrote: > I have several erros like this in log:
>
> SMTP connection from (host) [ip] lost while reading message data (header)
> .
>
> What is it caused by and how could I fix it? :|
What is happening is what the error message tells you, on receiving data
from a remote server the connection was dropped by the remote host.
> Some clients can't send data over SMTP due to this.
I'd suspect some connectivity issues.
> After some digging I found that traceroute <ip> won't find the target
> ip as after the 3th hop it outputs "* * *" in all the further lines.
> Can it be related?
That is probably just firewall/traffic filtering.
> Never seen this happening before upgrading to debian etch from sarge.. :|
