I've seen this once before and dealt with a rather unknowledgeable and rude mail admin on the other end. I would swear it was related to the 0-byte file system problem... there was a message in the outgoing spool, James attempted to deliver it, James would send MAIL FROM/RCPT TO ok since that was in the objectstore file, then when it tried to send the data, and rather than accept the message outright, the remote server (the one complaining about getting pounded) would see that the message James was sending didn't have a valid header (because it was an empty message... no header, no body), so it would abort the communication between our DATA and QUIT commands. James would then say to itself, 'oh, this was a delivery problem'... it would try to save this for retrying, but would fail to save it because of the 0-byte stream. James would then try to resume delivering message, but unfortunately found the same message (because it couldn't resave it) and try to deliver it again.
If you could try the 2.0a3 release, I had made some patches to the file repository that should avoid creating the 0-byte files. You could also try using a database repository as it never had this problem. -- Serge Knystautas Loki Technologies - Unstoppable Websites http://www.lokitech.com/ Chris Means wrote: > Here's a synopsis of the problem (w/James 2.0a2 on NT SP6a): > > >>Your server was sending me an email with an obviously bogus >>envelope sender. >>[snip]...but when you forward a spam with a bogus envelope sender, your >>server needs to >>take no for an answer. It was pounding me thousands of times per >>hour for over >>a day. > > > Unfortunately, I don't have any James logs from that time... > > What I don't know is if this could be a configuration problem on my end or a > potential bug in that version of James. > > Thanks. > > -Chris > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Danny Angus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:50 PM >>To: James Users List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: RE: Newsgroup integration >> >> >> >> >>>David, >>> >>>I posted a message about a potential problem in James 2.0a2 >> >>with messages >> >>>with invalid headers/addresses being rejected by a remote server >>>(and James >>>ignoring the rejection), but no one responded to that one either... >> >>Post that one again... >> >>FYI this isn't a very busy project, posts often get ignored simply because >>no one has enough time to deal with them, its not a snub. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
