Ok, finally had a chance to look at this issue outside of the "it's broken" user construct - and there appears to be a simple fix. I have seen postings in the ASSP Help forum related to the same "delaying not working issue", and at this point I can only make the assumption that those users are doing something similar to me... running ASSP on the same box as the receiving MTA _AND_ using the local interface IP/hostname of the MTA in the 'smtpDestination' field (as a side note we are actually running multiple MTAs on this host). In poking around in the perl code I noticed a particular condition for handling delaying when using the __INBOUND__ keyword. Hmmm... ok, so it looks like delaying needs a little help when dealing with local-local socket connections. I replaced the hostname:port combo in the 'smtpDestination' field with __INBOUND__:port and voila... she works.
The web interface help text for 'smtpDestination' is as follows... <quote> The address:port of your message handling system's SMTP server. If only the port is entered, or the keyword __INBOUND__:port is used, then the connection will be established to the same IP where the connection was received. This is useful when you have several IPs with different domains/profiles in your MTA. Examples: "127.0.0.1:125","127.0.0.1:125|127.0.0.5:125", "10.0.1.3", "10.0.1.3:1025", "__INBOUND__:125", "125", etc. </quote> Looking back on the problem I'm smacking myself on the head for not narrowing the issue down earlier, but I just did not make the initial connection in my head that delaying and smtpDestination might be conjoined at the hip. In any event a particular problem that has been bugging me for over a year now seems resolved. As always - humble thanks to the ASSP team for the best anti-spam product on this (or any other) planet. p.s. Any suggestions for making this a little less error prone, especially for new users. A FAQ or wiki entry detailing this particular scenario, or perhaps coding enhancements to detect/correct this issue automatically? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Charles Marcus Sent: Monday, January 08, 2007 11:23 AM To: Questions and Answers for users of ASSP Anti-Spam SMTP Proxy Subject: Re: [Assp-user] SMTP delaying issue with upgraded ASSP installations Melbourne E. Wells wrote: > filepaths all check out. I'm going to re-make a config from scratch > and see what happens - in the meantime if anyone has additional > suggestions I'm all ears. Run a diff against the two files to see where they differ? I'm curious myself... -- Best regards, Charles ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Assp-user mailing list Assp-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/assp-user
