[Mimedefang] Message weirdness

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

essenz at beck.quonix.net wrote:

>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) 
>
    The remote server is on the same (local) network.  And previous 
sendmail commands went through fine, as well as new incoming e-mail (as 
well as the other sendmail commands I issued in a different window, just 
to see if it was sendmail getting stuck or not.)  Sendmail kept running 
just fine.

>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.
>
    Same thing.  I killed sendmail, re-issued, same deal.  I stopped 
sendmail's service all together, restarted, re-issued the command for 
that one message, same deal.  It's something with the message, not 
sendmail.  BUt I just don't know -WHAT-.

> Also, try bouncing sendmail. After 
>the snag, have been able to successfully use the command again on other 
>messages? 
>
    Yup.

>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? 
>  
>
    I pitched it by now.  I asked the recipient if it's something they 
care to receive and they had me read off the contents of it over the 
phone.  After that I just deleted that qdir.

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