[Mimedefang] Anybody any ideas what's causing these errors ?

James Ebright jebright at esisnet.com
Thu Aug 4 11:39:47 EDT 2005


On Sat, 4 Jun 2005 16:27:20 +0100, Mack wrote
> I keep seeing these every now and then,
> 
> Aug  4 11:27:58 xxxx sendmail[21826]: j74APxYT021826: from=<x at x.x.x>,
>  size=625444, class=0, nrcpts=1, 
> msgid=<6658066.1123149733542.JavaMail.x at x.x.x>, proto=ESMTP, 
> daemon=MTA, relay=[x.x.x.x]
> Aug  4 11:28:11 xxxx mimedefang.pl[13083]: TC: Logging : 1.881722 
> Aug  4 11:32:58 xxxx sendmail[21826]: j74APxYT021826: Milter 
> (mimedefang): timeout before data read
> Aug  4 11:32:58 xxxx sendmail[21826]: j74APxYT021826: Milter 
> (mimedefang): to error state
> Aug  4 11:32:58 xxxx sendmail[21826]: j74APxYT021826: Milter: data,
>  reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later

That is sendmail deciding it had not heard from the milter before one of the
set timeouts in your milter definition (in your sendmial.mc file) expired.

So at this point sendmail temp failed the message.

Looks like MD was almost done with it at this point too if it was appending
boiler-plate text... does it actually end up being delivered? (I suspect not
once MD gets notice from sendmail it was temp failed or it was passed back to
sendmial then dropped since it was tempfailed already, not sure which scenario
but something like that).

Tweaking your sendmail.mc file for your timeouts might help. See:
http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?OptimizingMIMEDefang

Jim

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