[SLL] Possible SMTP disconnects

[John W. Baxter]

On 5/19/05 2:00 PM, "Eric Kahklen" <eric at kahklen.com> wrote:

> May 19 10:11:36 gateway postfix/smtpd[373]: connect from
> mail.company.com[32.21.24.39]
> May 19 10:11:36 gateway postfix/smtpd[373]: disconnect from
> mail.company.com[32.21.24.39]
> 
> The missing email does have an attachment and it is of allowable size (3MB)
> and
> type (PDF).  Previous email without attachments came through just fine.  What
> could be the reason for the mail server communication to connect and
> disconnect
> like this repeatedly? They've tried 2 times so far today.

I've seen it happen with servers which don't do STARTTLS properly.  If you
offer that to the connecting server, try turning it off (trivial in Exim;
probably trivial in Postfix but I have no idea how).

  --John