From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:58:48 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:58:38 -0500 Received: from james.kalifornia.com ([208.179.0.2]:22894 "EHLO james.kalifornia.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 21:58:25 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0F58CA.22F22844@linux.com> Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:58:18 -0800 From: David Ford Reply-To: david+validemail@kalifornia.com Organization: Talon Technology, Intl. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-test11 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Horst von Brand CC: root@chaos.analogic.com, Andrea Arcangeli , "Jeff V. Merkey" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue] In-Reply-To: <200011120139.eAC1d2E30929@sleipnir.valparaiso.cl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I have found that lowering the MTU helps a lot. If it is a particular route, simply add an additional route with the lower limit set. The tradeoff of efficiency v.s. reliability is improved. -d Horst von Brand wrote: > In my experience, if you try to send large messages over unreliable > networks (we sometimes see 50 or more % losses due to chronical link -- ---NOTICE -- fwd: fwd: fwd: type emails will be deleted automatically. "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents", Thomas Jefferson [1742-1826], 3rd US President - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/