[Mimedefang] Timeout before data read

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Wed Aug 23 16:01:17 EDT 2006


Joseph Brennan wrote:

> Aug 23 12:38:33 jujube sm-mta[9810]: [ID 801593 mail.error]
> k7NGaT2s009810: Milter (mimedefang): timeout before data read

[...]

> What is failing here?

You have a T=xxx timeout in your Milter line, and the Milter (MIMEDefang)
is not responding within that timeout.  It looks like you have a timeout
of two minutes, based on the logs you posted.  So something in your filter
is taking longer than that, and then sendmail gives up.

These lines:

> Aug 23 12:40:37 jujube mimedefang[423]: [ID 738095 mail.warning]
> k7NGaT2s009810: smfi_chgheader returned MI_FAILURE

> Aug 23 12:40:37 jujube mimedefang[423]: [ID 738095 mail.warning]
> k7NGaT2s009810: smfi_addheader returned MI_FAILURE

mean that the filter *finally* got around to finishing its work about
four minutes after it started, but when it tried to add headers, that
failed, because the Sendmail process had long since exited.

Regards,

David.



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