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From: wisner@zug.AI.MIT.EDU (Bill Wisner)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: sendmail generates bogus error messages
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Date: 2 Oct 88 03:59:37 GMT
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When sending mail to a host that isn't currently reachable, I should
be seeing error messages like

  Deferred: Connection timed out during user open with basel.ai.mit.edu

Instead, I get this:

  Deferred: Not a typewriter

I think that somewhere between the time the connection actually times
out and the time the error message is generated, something happens to
change errno to ENOTTY. But what? Anyone know how to fix this?