I have been subscibing to this news letter for many years now. but after upgrading to ewall thing went bad.... got timeouts all the time, mail not getting through due to errors. ended up uninstalling ewall again to get things working again.

but still have some problems with a daily mail I get. care to explain what the problem can be?

[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] Received SMTP Connection from ***.***.***.***
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 220 ***************** ArGoSoft Mail Server SMTP Module v.1.0.4.0 at Mon, 10 Dec 2007 06:41:18 GMT
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] EHLO **********
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250-Welcome ***.***.***.***, nice to meet you...
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250-AUTH=LOGIN
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250-AUTH LOGIN
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250-SIZE 20971520
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250-ETRN
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:18] 250 HELP
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:21] QUIT
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:21] 221 Goodbye
[SMTP 000477 10-12-07 07:41:21] SMTP Connection with ***.***.***.*** ended

Can you post the corresponding ArGo logs. It might shed some light on the situation.

this is from the log in argo.net

OH... I haven't switched over yet.. But it is on the schedule for this week (hopefully)

Is there a detailed log option in this version of ArGo? Does it happen to just one source or from all?
I'm looking at the size command: 250-SIZE 20971520

What is the MAX size you have allowed to receive?

- i am logging everything exept imap,
- yes it is just this one source, a friend gets the same news letter but he uses his own isp mail server so i don't think there is a problem from their side
- the max message size in argo is set to 20MB

thanks for the interest to help

If my calcs are correct, that message is 20 MB, meeting the threashold. You're right on the limit. Can he try a 19.5 MB message and see if it goes through. IMO 20 MB is a pretty big email. SMTP is not the most efficient way to transfer such large files. I have a max of 3 MB on my server.

strange.... it is a news letter and they are based on html and normally around 30-80KB!

This all started happening after i installed ewall, i have since uninstalled it and restarted the server, this fixed most of my troubles with ewall apart from this one thing.

I have now increased the max size 30MB, will see if this helps tomorrow, they usually  send out their news letter between 7-8am

Keep us posted on your progress. I use eWall and have not had any trouble. I still say that 20 MB is a pretty large email.

As i said the mail is never bigger then 100KB, i still have the same problem... checked with a friend who also get the same news letter and said that the mail is only 46KB today?!? but I still get the same result. have also tried testing sending a mail from a hotmail account with a file of 2MB without any trouble...

here is a new log:

[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] Received SMTP Connection from ***.***.***.***
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 220 ******************* ArGoSoft Mail Server SMTP Module v.1.0.4.0 at Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:00:22 GMT
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] EHLO **************
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250-Welcome ***.***.***.***, nice to meet you...
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250-AUTH=LOGIN
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250-AUTH LOGIN
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250-SIZE 31457280
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250-ETRN
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 250 HELP
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] QUIT
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] 221 Goodbye
[SMTP 000555 11-12-07 10:00:22] SMTP Connection with ***.***.***.*** ended

This seems to be a real bugger

Accourding to the SIZE parameter this one is nearly 29+ MB. Are you using and Server Extensions or front End Proxies, such as eWall?

that is what is so strange... what ever i set the max size to, the "250-SIZE" reflects just the same size. I am very sure the mail is no more then 30-100KB, I have been subcribing to the news letter for 3 year, and never have they tried sending me a mail that is in the megabytes.

As i said in the first post i have been running Argosoft.net (used Argosoft Pro for 2 years before that), no problems.
I installed eWall (trial) on the 3rd of december, after alot of trouble, timeouts all over the place, not being able to send mail, mail being dropped for no apparent reason, It looked like eWall and Argo had a really hard time talking with each other.
So I have hence uninstalled eWall, and things are looking a hole lot better! apart from this very irritating thing.

D_Angle,

I am now using ArGo .NET and eWall. Is this a public newsletter? If so what is the address to subscribe to.

What number to you have set in your Options -> General Options-> Max Allowed Message Size?

yes it is a public newletter. to subscribe goto dinside.no it is a norwegean site.

the Max Allowed Message size is set to 0 now, I have tried 20MB 30MB and now 0. setting it to 0 did not help, just got the same thing with out the 250-SIZE 31457280.

[SMTP 000241 12-12-07 10:00:08] Received SMTP Connection from 61.247.52.22
[SMTP 000241 12-12-07 10:00:08] 220 mail.customline.net ArGoSoft Mail Server SMTP Module v.1.0.4.0 at Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:00:08 GMT
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] Received SMTP Connection from 82.117.50.2
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 220 mail.customline.net ArGoSoft Mail Server SMTP Module v.1.0.4.0 at Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:00:08 GMT
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] EHLO intra.dinside.no
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 250-Welcome 82.117.50.2, nice to meet you...
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 250-AUTH=LOGIN
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 250-AUTH LOGIN
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 250-ETRN
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 250 HELP
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] QUIT
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] 221 Goodbye
[SMTP 000242 12-12-07 10:00:08] SMTP Connection with 82.117.50.2 ended

thanks for the explanation maybe it was just coinsidence that i started having problem while trying ewall, will give it some time and see what happens.

any thoughts on how i can resolve this?

Thanks for now

well i am still having problems getting mail....... it only my server that is being exited.... every body else who i know who subscribes to this mail have no problems. even my hotmail and gmail accounts get the mail. It must be my mail server that is doing some thing wrong!!!! still getting the same error as above..........