[Mimedefang] timeout before data read, where=body

Alexander Dalloz ad+lists at uni-x.org
Sun Apr 11 09:58:46 EDT 2010


Am 11.04.2010 15:06, schrieb Marcus:
> Hi,
> 
> since yesterday I get a "timeout before data read, where=body" with a
> single mail sent via googlemail. It's not spam/not a virus and from the
> subject line and the message size of 25049183 it seems to have an
> attachment (may be a PDF). Clamav scans up to a size of 10MB. The
> message size itself seems not to be the problem. I've seen bigger mails
> in the log.

> Apr 11 13:01:41 server sm-mta[29661]: o3BB0W83029661: Milter
> (mimedefang): timeout before data read, where=body
> Apr 11 13:01:41 server sm-mta[29661]: o3BB0W83029661: Milter
> (mimedefang): to error state
> Apr 11 13:01:41 server sm-mta[29661]: o3BB0W83029661: Milter: data,
> reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later
> Apr 11 13:01:41 server sm-mta[29661]: o3BB0W83029661:
> to=<xxx at domain.de>, delay=00:01:08, pri=25079183, stat=Please try again
> later
> Apr 11 13:01:48 server mimedefang.pl[24748]:
> MDLOG,o3BB0W83029661,mail_in,,,<xxx at gmail.com>,<xxx at domain.de>,Fwd: xxx
> Apr 11 13:01:48 server mimedefang[7286]: o3BB0W83029661: smfi_addrcpt
> returned MI_FAILURE
> Apr 11 13:01:48 server mimedefang[7286]: o3BB0W83029661: smfi_addheader
> returned MI_FAILURE

> Thanks for helping,
> Marcus

Hi Marcus,

looks like you have a timeout value of 60 seconds set in your
sendmail.mc for the INPUT_MAIL_FILTER mimedefang (maybe something like
"T=S:1m"), which is too short for processing such large mails.

Greetings

Alexander




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