Sendmail and Unexpected EOM

[Denis Beauchemin]

Scott Silva a écrit :
> I'm getting a lot of collect: premature EOM: unexpected close
> errors from certain servers, and a google gives me much conflicting info.
>
> Running CentOS 4 and current stable MailScanner.
>
>  I have tried decreasing the MTU on the external interface, and only 
> succeeded in stopping all traffic. Tried disabling window scaling, and 
> that also had no effect. Could the default be to set no-fragment on 
> packets from CentOS 4?
>
Scott,

I modified these TCP settings in RHEL5 to correct this situation:
(from /etc/rc.local):
/sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_wmem="4096 16384 131072"
/sbin/sysctl -w net.ipv4.tcp_rmem="4096 87380 174760"

For some unknown reason it wouldn't work in /etc/sysctl.conf...

Denis

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