[Mimedefang] Message weirdness

[essenz at beck.quonix.net]

I am grasping at straws here but...

I believe -odi is interactive mode, which means sendmail works on the 
message in real time, which also means if sendmail has to wait 5 secs for 
the remote server to answer, you also have to wait for the remote to 
answer. (Maybe it was a really big message) 

Maybe it was just a random occurance that at the time your issued the 
command, something else was going on which slowed things down. What 
happens if you re-issue the command. Also, try bouncing sendmail. After 
the snag, have been able to successfully use the command again on other 
messages? 

If that doesn't work, then there must be something unique about that 
particular message. Could we see what the values of SENDER, RECIPIENTS, 
and ENTIRE_MESSAGE? 

-john

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>From : Ashley M. Kirchner <ashley at pcraft.com>
To : mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject : [Mimedefang] Message weirdness
Date : Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:22:25 -0600
> 
>     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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