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 ! -- °(((=((===°°°(((=========================================== ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
