Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!dkuug!imada!larsen From: larsen@imada.dk (Soren Larsen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin Subject: Re: sendmail prob. (help!) Message-ID: <1990Nov27.122415.22438@imada.dk> Date: 27 Nov 90 12:24:15 GMT References: Sender: news@imada.dk (USENET News System) Distribution: comp Organization: Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University, Denmark Lines: 32 shawn@litsun8.litsun.epfl.edu (Shawn Koppenhoefer) writes: > >I've just recently started getting the following from sendmail. >Can anybody clue me in on just what is happening and/or >how to fix it? :-( >-------------------------------- >Nov 26 12:20:20 litsun sendmail[2936]: AA02936: SYSERR: unexpected close, from= >Nov 26 13:48:08 litsun8 sendmail[16897]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from litsun: Connection timed out >-- >_____________________________________________________________________________ >| shawn@lit.epfl.ch -.- KLEIN BOTTLE FOR SALE ... \####### >| Shawn Edwin Koppenhoefer \_/ ... enquire within \###### >| LIT-EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal De Lausanne)___________________\##### We struggled with the same problem for weeks until I accidentally discovered that it arose because certain users tried to send letters in which the last character was not a newline. This can only happen when they use a non-vi editor or transfer the letter from, say, a Macintosh. Regards, Soren Larsen. PS: The From: field of your article indicates a US address, whereas your signature mentions Switzerland. I haven't been able to reach you at either address. -- Soren Larsen / larsen@imada.dk Dept. of Math. & Computer Science, Odense University Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark phone: +45 66 15 86 00, ext. 2312 / telefax: +45 65 93 26 91