Re: Facing problem of network write error :timed out

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 07:16:17PM +0530, Wilson wrote:
> I have installed serialmail . It is configured in crontab to push
> mails to another mail server. It was working properly earlier as
> expected. Now it is observed that when ever maildirsmtp is run , mails
> do not get pushed . I have tried this from command line also.  The
> mail server to which i am pushing mails is available and smtp is also
> running on it.
> 
> I am getting following errors always:
> 
> serialsmtp: fatal: network write error: timed out
> serialsmtp: fatal: network write error: timed out
> serialsmtp: fatal: network write error: timed out
> maildirserial: fatal: making no progress, giving up
> 
> Sometimes i get this error also "serialsmtp: fatal: network read
> error: timed out".

> I want to know if anyone observed this problem and also ways to
> eliminate this problem.

I've seen this behavior when trying to deliver a _huge_ maildir some
time ago, IIRC.  The fix was to increase the timeout for tcpclient (-T
option) in the maildirsmtp script, e.g.:

#!/bin/sh
exec \
/usr/local/bin/maildirserial -b -t 1209600 -- "$1" "$2" \
tcpclient -RHl0 -T120 -- "$3" 25 \
/usr/local/bin/serialsmtp "$2" "$4"

I'm not sure that that's your problem, but maybe it helps.

Regards, Gerrit.