[hobbit] Re: 554 SMTP synchronization error

[Dominique Frise]

Henrik Stoerner wrote:
> On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:30:07AM +0200, Dominique Frise wrote:
> 
>>Kolbjørn Barmen wrote:
>>
>>>>Maybe this has been discussed already but I can't find any relevant info.
>>>>All our smtp tests sporadically report similar error:
>>>>
>>>>------------
>>>>yellow  Wed May 17 14:37:21 2006 smtp NOT ok
>>>>
>>>>Service smtp on mailc is not OK : Unexpected service response
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>554 SMTP synchronization error..
>>>>
>>
>>The bbnet-test is to fast!
>>
>>Would it be possible to integrate a -configurable in bb-services- timeout 
>>between the connexion established and the data sent by bbnet-test?
> 
> 
> The correct solution is to modify the bbtest-net tool to obey the
> SMTP protocol, which means waiting for the "220 ..." banner before
> sending a QUIT command.
> 
> I am planning to rework this in a later version, but for now you can 
> change the [smtp] section to just avoid sending any data. So in
> bb-services it would be
> 
> [smtp]
>     expect "220"
>     options banner
>     port 25
> 
> 
> The only downside of this is that if you're running sendmail, it
> will log a "NOQUEUE" error message each time Hobbit tests it.
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Henrik
> 
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> 
Ok.

Thanks a lot for this quick fix.



Dominique
UNIL - University of Lausanne