Lemme guess: you are running lmtpd from inetd? If so, you are bitten by
a gmime bug that dumps debug output on stdout. This messes with the lmtp
protocol. Upgrade to 2.2.8 and run daemon mode.

James Greig wrote:
> Hi Aaron,
> 
> I think you may have got it in one there.  We're using debians 
> libsieve-2..2.1 package=/  The to address that the emails seem to be failing 
> on most has libsieve with vacation enabled.  I'll look at updating libsieve.  
> 
> Cheers Pal
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> James Greig
> 
> On Wed, 9 Jan 2008 18:59:19 -0000, Aaron Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> There have been a couple of known crash bugs with very badly formatted
>> email addresses, although I don't think there were any in 2.2.7...
>>
>> Do you have any sieve scripts? There are definitely some crash bugs in
>> libSieve < 2.2.6 with badly formatted email addresses.
>>
>> Aaron
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 9, 2008, James Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>>
>>> Hi Guys,
>>>
>>> Hopefully this is an issue that someone knows, but sods law it probably
>> isnt.
>>> We're currently running 2.2.7 (haven't updated ... yet).  All of a
>> sudden since the christmas period (perhaps) we have started having a lot
>> of mail sit in our postfix queue stating "lost connection with
>> 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while sending end of data" deferred.  It seems that
>> 'particular' emails by the looks of it are being deferred whilst being
>> passed to dbmail-lmtpd.  At first we thought that there may have been a
>> spike over xmas of spam that's increased load a bit but increasing process
>> childs, threads etc has not helped.
>>> The majority of emails that are being deferred do appear to be spam.  On
>> tailing the logs we can't see anything really in relation to errors
>> reported by dbmail-lmtpd and it seems to be sorting (sort.c) for most
>> other emails fine.
>>> As noted above we think this has started since around xmas, however, we
>> may be wrong as it may have been ocurring before then and we just had not
>> noticed it, along with an increase of spam this may have just magnified
>> it.
>>> I seem to remember a mime issue that was discussed a few months back and
>> was wondering if this may be related, however, I can't remember if that
>> issue resulted in a deferr after data.
>>> Also, on another note, anyone know of a decent way of displaying an
>> email in postfix's deferred queue without the strange formatting?
>>> Any help is greatly appreciated!
>>>
>>> Kind Regards
>>>
>>> James Greig
>>>
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