[Mimedefang] Message weirdness

Ashley M. Kirchner ashley at pcraft.com
Wed Jul 14 15:22:25 EDT 2004


    So, here I was, pulling quarantined messages out for delivery, by 
issuing the following command:

    sendmail -odi -f`cat SENDER` `cat RECIPIENTS` < ENTIRE_MESSAGE

    ...which always works, and today was no exception.  Except, I just 
hit a snag on only ONE message.  When I issue that sendmail command, it 
just sits there.  I can't CTRL-C, I can't do anything short from 
actually KILLing the task.  Looking at 'ps aux' I see this:

12894 pts/0  S  0:00 sendmail: ./i6EJEBBk012894 localhost.localdomain.: 
client DATA 354
12895 ?      S  0:00 sendmail: i6EJEBxE012895 localhost.localdomain 
[127.0.0.1]: DATA

    In my log files, I see this:

Jul 14 13:14:11 int-serpico.pcraft.com sendmail[12894]:
                i6EJEBBk012894: from=<obfuscated at hotmail.com>,
                size=11401, class=0, nrcpts=1,
                msgid=<BAY9-F9RIlDgRjpPIKQ0000daf0 at hotmail.com>,
                relay=root at localhost
Jul 14 13:14:11 int-serpico.pcraft.com mimedefang.pl[12639]:
                filter_relay said ACCEPT_AND_NO_MORE_FILTERING:
                No further filtering for this message

    So far, everything appears okay (it's supposed to exit the filter 
that way.)  So, why is it "stuck" ?  Why won't it do anything?  Why 
won't it continue?  Something with the message itself?  If so...what?

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