Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!zephyr.ens.tek.com!tektronix!sequent!mntgfx!sboyle From: sboyle@mentorg.com (Sean Boyle x1542) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: reply: read error Message-ID: <1991Mar4.191921.3139@mentorg.com> Date: 4 Mar 91 19:19:21 GMT Sender: sboyle@mentorg.com Organization: none Lines: 27 Has anyone out there come up with a workaround to the problem that the Apollo shipped version of sendmail exhibits during tcp connections? Here is an example: >>> RCPT To: 250 ... Recipient ok >>> DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself >>> . btoll@swmfg.mentor.com... reply: read error btoll@swmfg.mentor.com... Deferred: No such file or directory My guess is that my side was waiting for something from the other end and it didn't get it. (I got the I don't know what I want from you, but I ain't gettin' it blues...). After awhile it got tired and went home. It looks like either: A) swmfg sent a message that I dropped or ignored B) Network slowness allowed me to alarm out C) ??? -- "There is a time to laugh and a time not to laugh and this is not one of them." Inspector Jacques Clouseau sboyle@mentor.com Mentor Graphics Corporation