Mark Martinec wrote:
> Ricardo,
>
>   
>>>> Finally I got the time to upgrade to the latest amavisd.  But I'm still
>>>> been haunted by this ghost... I had posted about it in the past but
>>>> never got anywhere for one reason or another.  I recently upgraded to
>>>> 2.4.2 from 2.2.1. Basically, I occasionally receive emails that has way
>>>> too many recipients (ie above 100 in the TO: line) but only one of them
>>>> is for our domain.
>>>>         
>
>   
>> Could not capture anything on the Sun box - so I had to make some time
>> and room on the linux box to capture.  Basically, I see the amavis
>> response about sender and recipient ok and to 'End data with...' but
>> then no data is being sent from sendmail after this...  It's like
>> sendmail is waiting on something and can't figure out what.  So
>> eventually amavisd times out.  What's interesting also is that when this
>> is happening, no other message is handled during the time, essentially
>> locking the queue.
>>     
>
> Perhaps you have some feature in sendmail enabled to check
> validity of recipient addresses IN MAIL HEADER, or trying to
> rewrite/sanitize/masquerade recipients in header. Such checks,
> coupled perhaps with a slow DNS, might manifest in terribly slow
> processing of a mail header. Just a wild guess. Looks like you
> need to turn on debugging in sendmail (or perhaps use strace
> on it). Luckily the problem can be reproduced.
>
>  
How long have I've been after ?

FEATURE(`nocanonify', `canonify_hosts')dnl Would this solve the dns
timeouts ?

YUP.  That's it.  It was DNS.  Every address was being parsed.  BTW, I
had to add it to both rx and tx, as otherwise, after amavis passing out
the message, I would hit the same problem.

Thanks Mark for the hint !


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