[H-GEN] Mail problems.......

[Michael Anthon]

Thanks Anthony,
Following are my comments/further input

On Saturday, September 20, 1997 11:12 AM, Anthony Towns 
[SMTP:aj at humbug.org.au] wrote:
<snip>
> What happens when you're sending mail directly from the DX4? (try
> sending a mail with your kernel attached to your ISP account if you
> don't have any more realistic large files handy)

Same problem.  Gets sent out very slowly

>
> If that's slow too, your problem is probably related more to how your
> ISP connection is set up than masq or whatever. I'd check:
> 	a) that you can move large files about in reasonable time.
> 	   Try ftp. I've little idea how to fix this. Check that your
> 	   modem is set up right, that your pppd MTU and MRU are
> 	   reasonable, stuff like that.

Yep, OUTGOING ftp is also slow

>
> 	b) that you've got a working identd and/or named (bind
> 	   package?). This slows down telnet connections, but I'd not
> 	   have thought it'd slow down mail _that_ much.
>

Yes, identd and bind are both running

> 	c) that you're forwarding mail to the right computer on the
> 	   ISP (but I'd say you are)
>

Yes, going to the right place (Used netstat to check the connections)

> 	d) this is probably related to the recent thread on
> 	   uq.dialin about large emails timing out. Since it never
> 	   happened to me, perhaps someone else can report any
> 	   recommended solutions?
>
> If that's was _not_ slow, then I'd guess that you've misconfigured
> your Windows box somewhere along the line. I've no idea _what_ would
> cause this, but I'd recommend sending email between an account on your
> DX4 and the Cyrix via qmail or sendmail while playing with random
> settings. Try checking how long it takes to ftp from one box to the
> other, if you've got an ftpd set up.

LAN connections between the two boxes seem to work perfectly.  Following is 
the output from ifconfig.  This shows a fairly significant number of errors 
on the incoming PPP, I wonder if this is a cause/symptom of my problem

eth0      Link encap:10Mbps Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:E8:31:94:9B
          inet addr:10.10.10.200  Bcast:10.10.10.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7601 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:6568 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          Interrupt:5 Base address:0x300

ppp0      Link encap:Point-Point Protocol
          inet addr:203.20.132.66  P-t-P:203.20.132.2  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP POINTOPOINT RUNNING  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:7401 errors:702 dropped:702 overruns:0
          TX packets:8453 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0

>
> Personally, I'd recommend sending mail via sendmail/qmail on your DX4.
> That way the Cyrix doesn't really need to know if the net is up or
> down, and you don't have to worry about any masq vagaries very much.
> Speaking of which, where does one actually get qmail from?
>

I would be happy for it to work either way, but using the DX4 as an SMTP 
gateway makes sense.
Try http://www.qmail.org/

> (I'd also recommend setting up squid (the http proxy) on the DX4. I
> like squid)
>

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