From: Clifton Royston (no email)
Date: Fri Aug 09 2002 - 22:42:31 EDT
On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 07:55:57PM -0600, Eli Klein wrote:
> i've been getting reports from one major client who receives many e-mails
> with large attachments. These reports indicate that messages are being
> sent through over and over and over. The same e-mail, 20-30 times.
>
> i didn't think much of it, because it just seemed more likely that someone
> would get impatient with the delay and send the e-mail again to "be sure".
> then i started seeing these types of errors in my mailq:
>
> (lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending end of data --
> message may be sent more than once)
>
> My configuration is Solaris 8, Postfix 1.1.11 and Amavisd-new (20020517),
> here's the relevant log output based on the most recent queue entry I
> have:
>
> Aug 9 19:34:43 relay1 postfix/smtpd[6604]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> E9B0CB5E13: client=unknown[63.87.252.35]
> Aug 9 19:34:44 relay1 postfix/cleanup[6641]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> E9B0CB5E13: message-id=
> Aug 9 19:34:44 relay1 postfix/qmgr[1535]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> E9B0CB5E13: from=<>, size=6450, nrcpt=1 (queue
> active)
> Aug 9 19:34:44 relay1 amavis[7444]: [ID 702911 mail.info] SMTP-in
> [66.37.143.28] /var/amavis/amavis-20020809T192723-07444:
> <> -> <>
> Aug 9 19:34:44 relay1 amavis[7444]: [ID 702911 mail.info] Checking:
> <> -> <>
> Aug 9 19:35:22 relay1 postfix/smtp[7227]: [ID 197553 mail.info]
> E9B0CB5E13: to=<>, relay=127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1],
> delay=39, status=deferred (lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while
> sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once)
It certainly looks to me like amavisd stops responding to the
connection postfix has open to it, and closes the connection without
giving postfix any indication of what it's doing with it. That would
be an amavisd bug.
-- Clifton
--
Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect --
"What do we need to make our world come alive?
What does it take to make us sing?
While we're waiting for the next one to arrive..." - Sisters of Mercy
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