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From: levitz@fsucs.UUCP (Hilbert Levitz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Bad File Number
Message-ID: <596@fsucs.UUCP>
Date: 1 Nov 90 18:34:12 GMT
Organization: Computer Science, FSU
Lines: 20


We would be grateful for any advice concerning the following
malfunction. It occurs intermittently but  with intolerable freqeuncy.
It has persisted through various kinds of sendmail,  both the  Ultrix
sendmail, and the currently installed Berkeley 5.61 .

The equipment  in  question  is  a  VAX  11/780   running  Ultrix
V2.0-1.

During the mail passing stage  of the  SMTP dialog  if connection
breaks off, the  mail  goes  on  the  queue  with  the error  message
"Bad File Number".  From this there is no automatic recovery.  The item
will hang on the queue with an asterisk, and no delivery of the mail
will be made, even during  later  passes  of  the  queue.
Reoriginating  the  mail frequently succeeds.

			Hilbert Levitz
			Dept. Computer Science
			Florida State University
			levitz@cs.fsu.edu