Re: sendmail Broken Pipe Error

Dear Claus and FreeBSD friends,

On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:22:30PM -0700, Claus Assmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2014, Willy Offermans wrote:
> 
> > Mar 24 14:16:01 MyServer sm-mta[11725]: s2ODCWT4011717: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to MyProvider.com: Broken pipe
> > Mar 24 14:16:01 MyServer sm-mta[11725]: s2ODCWT4011717: to=<SomeAddress_at_example.com>, delay=00:03:29, xdelay=00:03:26, mailer=relay, pri=1284849, relay=MyProvider.com [XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred
> 
> > Since there is a timeout error, I like to know what sendmail is writing to
> > MyProvider.com
> 
> The mail message (DATA) -- as the log entry states.
> 
> > Is there a way to debug sendmail to disclose the message written to
> > MyProvider.com and the response from MyProvider.com. I'm pretty sure that 
> 
> There's no response...
> check out s2ODCWT4011717 in your mail queue.
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This sounds very reasonable, but for your better understanding the
following: My old FreeBSD server is still running as well. This server runs
sendmail 8.14.5 and does not show these errors. So I'm puzzled what the
problem might be.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groeten,
With kind regards,
Mit freundlichen Gruessen,

Willy

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