[Mimedefang] Error on huge (~180mb) e-mail

Nate Carlson natecars at real-time.com
Fri Jul 26 12:18:05 EDT 2002


Hey there,

I've got a client who's waiting on a huge e-mail (yeah, I've already
explained that e-mail shouldn't be used to transfer large files, blah blah
blah), every time the queue host tries to transfer to the client's mail
server (running Mimedefang), I get the following:

Jul 26 10:51:28 gatekeeper sendmail[6520]: g6QDmQ8u006520: from=<sender at example.com>, size=179151651, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<B080C49E51C8D21183710008C739BE8F0147E377 at bvnts02>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=mailq.domain.com [xx.xx.xx.xx]
Jul 26 10:51:28 gatekeeper sendmail[6520]: g6QDmQ8u006520: Milter (mimedefang): write(L) returned -1, expected 5: Broken pipe
Jul 26 10:51:28 gatekeeper sendmail[6520]: g6QDmQ8u006520: Milter (mimedefang): to error state
Jul 26 10:51:28 gatekeeper sendmail[6520]: g6QDmQ8u006520: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
Jul 26 10:51:28 gatekeeper sendmail[6520]: g6QDmQ8u006520: to=<recipient at domain.com>, delay=02:03:02, pri=35423, stat=Please try again later

I've got my timeouts set to really long periods (200min), and set up
Mimedefang not to run spamassassin across anything larger than 64k, and no
virus scanning on attachments larger than 5mb. Anyone have an idea what
this error could be?

Sendmail 8.12.4 and MD 2.15 on this box..

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