Re: [exim] SMTP connection from (host) [ip] lost while readi…

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Auteur: Drav Sloan
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Aan: joe7
CC: exim-users
Onderwerp: 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.. :|


duplex mismatches on an interface possibly?

Regards

Drav.