Re: Need help debugging send problems.

[Pawel Salek <pawsa0 gmail com>]

On 03/06/2009 04:45:57 AM, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 23:45 -0600, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> > [cut]
> > Well, I ended up running wireshark.
> >
> > Traces available upon request (after a delay for editing to remove
> > e-mail addresses.)  Balsa had split a BDAT message across 2  
> packets; I
> > don't know if that's a problem.  I'll see what evolution does with  
> this
> > message.
>
> Well, evolution doesn't appear to support or use BDAT.  At least
> according to the trace.

BDAT [1] data can and will be split on many packets if there is enough  
data. BDAT is really like DATA command except that it saves the  
receiving server from looking for the ending dot. It looks like a bug  
in the SMTP server you use which apparently is not that uncommon[2]...

Pawel

[1] http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1830.html
[2] http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997593.aspx