> > This problem
> > started happening while I was using the before-queue filtering method.
This is probably a coincidence. The failure mode would be different
("queue file write error" vs. timeout reported by smtpd), but what
is happening within amavis-new or SA is pretty much the same.
> > I don't know if this particular message was the cause
Most likely it was. I hope you preserved the email.txt
you found in a temporary directory for further testing.
For test purposes you can resubmit it with:
sendmail -i -f [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] <email.txt
> After I thought about it for 20 seconds, if you were using a
> before queue filter, I'm now guessing the message never actually would
> have made it to the deferred queue.
Indeed. It remained in the sender's MTA queue, not in your MTA spool.
> In the maillog every time I come across this situation, the process
> gives a warning: WARN: MIME::Parser error: part did not end with
> expected boundary. I didn't think it was such a big deal since it was
> a warning, but it seems to happen every time this occurs.
This is quite common with bounce messages, which often contain
a chopped-off section of the original mail, without the proper
tail that would enclose the MIME structure. Nothing to worry
about it, the MIME structure there is indeed broken.
> It doesn't appear to be a DoS attack as it is the same message retried
> and causing the same symptoms. Any ideas on what to do now?
When it is a problem within SA, it is often interesting to feed
a captured message (email.txt or fetched from a Postfix queue
with 'postcat' and cleaned with an editor) to a command-line SA:
# su vscan -c 'spamassassin -t -D <email.txt'
and see if it causes any problems with bare-bones SA.
Mark
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