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- From: jladwig@soils.umn.edu (John Ladwig)
- Subject: Re: Problems with sendmail called from ELM - ME TOO!
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- Organization: UMN Soils GIS Lab
- References: <1992Nov13.175323@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> <DUG.92Nov16173206@morlich.turing.ac.uk> <Bxto0D.6s9@cs.psu.edu>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 23:21:03 GMT
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- In <Bxto0D.6s9@cs.psu.edu> kenh@leps5.phys.psu.edu (Ken Hornstein) writes:
-
- >In article <DUG.92Nov16173206@morlich.turing.ac.uk> dug@turing.ac.uk (& Scoular) writes:
- >>Hi All,
- >>In article <1992Nov13.175323@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de> melin@hlrz24.hlrz.kfa-juelich.de (Stephan Melin) writes:
- >>
- >>> at our site we have a problem whith ELM sending mail:
- >>> when sending mail to certain sites whith ELM the mail
- >>> never gets delivered. The message on the console reads
- >>> something like:
- >>> ... sendmail, nethang connection timed out
- >>
- >> We get this too, it seems to happen when users choose to use
- >> emacs as their elm editor. The exact error we get is...
- >>
- >>NOQUEUE: SYSERR: net hang reading from mailhost: Connection timed out
-
- >The problem lies with the version of sendmail Sun ships, and the now-infamous
- >OR option.
-
- >A short synopsis: Sun has an option in their sendmail config files that, when
- >enabled, will deliver mail to a central mailhost IF the mail spool is NFS
- >mounted. This is actually a nice feature; unfortunately, it is implemented
- >VERY poorly. There are a ton of problems that happen when you enable OR;
- >one of them is IF you don't end a message with a newline, you will get the
- >"net hang" error message, and sendmail will eat the message for breakfast.
- >Vi doesn't let you end a message with a newline; but emacs does.
-
- >The solution?
-
- > Get your system administrator to upgrade to IDA sendmail (something
- > that should be done anyway).
-
- > Don't use emacs :-)
-
- > Set a emacs option so it always adds a newline (I forget what the
- > option is, tho)
-
- In your ~/.emacs or other emacs setup file:
-
- (setq require-final-newline nil) ;; automatically insert a newline at the end
- ;; of a saved buffer if it is not the last char
- --
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