KMail intermittently fails to send

[Tim Littlemore]

Hi,

I have had a problem for quite a while with KMail where sometimes messages do 
not send properly.

The error message that appears when this happens isn't particularly helpful, 
it just says:

The server responded: ""

I have access to the logs of the mailserver that is being used, and I can see 
that sometimes, even though the messages don't look like they have been sent, 
I can see entries in the maillog of the messages going. KMail seems to think 
that they haven't gone though, and they stay in the outbox.

However, sometimes I get the message, and when I check the maillog, the 
message HAS NOT gone.

I cannot seem to find any pattern emerging with this behaviour. Has anyone 
else ever experienced this? I haven't been able to find any other references 
to this problem where the server responds with a blank error message.

Thanks,

Tim

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Thursday 03 June 2004 10:24 am, Tim Littlemore wrote:

>  I have had a problem for quite a while with KMail where sometimes
> messages
>  do not send properly. 
Hi Tim,

I've been using Kmail for about 3 years and I have never seen this behaviour 
before.  Does this happens when you try to use a particular MTA? Have you 
tried sending an email to another mail server user?

I suggest you talk to the SMTP server manually (using telnet to port 25) and 
performing the SMTP talk (helo me , mail from...rcpto to...data...) and see 
what happens.

HTH,
Jorge

[Tim Littlemore]

On Friday 04 Jun 2004 2:04 am, Jorge Fábregas wrote:
>  Hi Tim,
>
>  I've been using Kmail for about 3 years and I have never seen this
>  behaviour before.  Does this happens when you try to use a particular MTA?
>  Have you tried sending an email to another mail server user? 
Hi Jorge,

This has happened across a couple of MTAs. One was a Cobalt RaQ using 
sendmail, the other is a Fedora server with Ensim on top.

>  I suggest you talk to the SMTP server manually (using telnet to port
> 25)
>  and performing the SMTP talk (helo me , mail from...rcpto to...data...) and
>  see what happens. 
That all works fine. I think it is a client issue rather than a server issue.

Do you know if Kmail keeps a log anywhere?

Thanks for the response.
>  HTH,
>  Jorge

[Jorge Fábregas]

On Friday 04 June 2004 4:53 am, Tim Littlemore wrote:

>  Do you know if Kmail keeps a log anywhere? 
Hello!

I don't think Kmail has any logging option to track what's doing behind the 
scene. I haven't seen that option.

What I would do in your case is to use tcpdump or ethereal (more friendlier) 
to see exactly what's going on behind. Ethereal is very friendly.

Jorge

[Björn Persson]

Tim Littlemore wrote:

>  I have had a problem for quite a while with KMail where sometimes
> messages do 
>  not send properly.
>  
>  The error message that appears when this happens isn't particularly helpful, 
>  it just says:
>  
>  The server responded: ""
>  
>  I have access to the logs of the mailserver that is being used, and I can see 
>  that sometimes, even though the messages don't look like they have been sent, 
>  I can see entries in the maillog of the messages going. KMail seems to think 
>  that they haven't gone though, and they stay in the outbox.
>  
>  However, sometimes I get the message, and when I check the maillog, the 
>  message HAS NOT gone. 
I had a similar problem develop in Redhat 7.2. I don't think the 
symptoms were exactly the same. It seemed to disappear when I upgraded 
to Fedora.

Björn Persson