Re: [exim] Long Sender Addresses and Data Timeouts

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Author: Tony Finch
Date:  
To: Chris Russell
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Long Sender Addresses and Data Timeouts
On Thu, 8 May 2008, Chris Russell wrote:

> SMTP<< 354 Enter message, ending with "." on a line by itself
> SMTP>> writing message and terminating "."
> writing data block fd=6 size=5918 timeout=300
> waiting for data on socket
> selecting on subprocess pipes
>
> ...
>
> At which point it loops on the subprocess pipes before (in this case)
> the remote exim closes the SMTP session due to data timeouts.


What is the remote host doing when this happens?

> Has anyone ever experienced anything like this ? could it be some other
> wierd and wonderful issue such as MTU ?


Possibly, but not if it really is the length of the sender address. Do
long messages with short addresses get through OK?

Tony.
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