by We are experiencing a "connection" problem with Smail 3.1.29.1 servers
running on Solaris 2.4 systems - where a client trying to establish an
smtp connection with the smail daemon is being timed out. The problem is
sporadic in the sense that it works for the first couple of connections
and then fails for the next and then works again later.
Using netstat -a on the server shows that the "smtp" sockets are either
in SYN_RCVD or TIME_WAIT state but very rarely is ESTABLISHED seen.
The Smail software was compiled using gcc 2.7.0 on Solaris 2.4 with
kernel jumbo patch 101945-32. The hardware is a Sun SPARCstation 20 with
2 CPUS and 64 MB RAM.
Also note that the Washington University IMAP software was also compiled
with the same environment and working satisfactorily.
Any folk out there have any ideas where I am going wrong......
Desparately Seeking Solution (Users Complaining.....)
William Craven
UNIX Systems, Computing Service +44-(0)1273-678090
Falmer, Brighton
England