sendmail prob. (help!)

[Soren Larsen]

shawn at 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=<root>
>Nov 26 13:48:08 litsun8 sendmail[16897]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from litsun: Connection timed out
>--
>_____________________________________________________________________________
>| shawn at 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 at 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