Well, since no one else has responded...
What exactly do you mean -
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sending large e-mails via a ssh session
?
1 - what is the timeout period - does it take 5 minutes, 10, ...? If you let a ssh session sit for that long doing nothing (just at the prompt) does it also timeout?
2. Are you running some type of kill user program that looks for processes not doing anything? (It may be killing off your email process by mistake)
3. What is so different about these sessions versus 'smaller' emails? Do you know what the size of these emails are that are getting killed? What size will go successfully? Are these emails going to local servers, remote, remote-out-of-your-control?
What OS and version? What email are you using?
Just from your writing that a person would have to sit there and hit a key, it seems like it's a program looking for input from the user or it kills the session. That should point you to look at how ssh is set up (or that particular server).