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----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Means" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "James Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 11:54 PM
Subject: RE: Newsgroup integration


> Thanks Serge.
>
> 2.0a3 doesn't seem to be "generally" available yet (looking at
> http://jakarta.apache.org/builds/jakarta-james/release/), but I have both
> Oracle and MySQL available, so I'll try changing to a db backend.
>
> However, here's what the mail admin (of the machine my James server was
> "flooding") was seeing in the transaction:
>
> *****
> 2002-04-24 13:03:44.069887500 qmail-smtpd: pid 19775 from 66.92.129.218
> Non-exis
> ting DNS_MX: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2002-04-24 13:03:44.271008500 qmail-smtpd: pid 19777 from 66.92.129.218
> Non-exis
> ting DNS_MX: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2002-04-24 13:03:44.481761500 qmail-smtpd: pid 19779 from 66.92.129.218
> Non-exis
> ting DNS_MX: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 2002-04-24 13:03:44.687785500 qmail-smtpd: pid 19783 from 66.92.129.218
> Non-exis
> ting DNS_MX: MAIL FROM:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> *****
>
> Does that seem like the 0-byte file system problem you described?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Serge Knystautas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 4:37 PM
> > To: James Users List
> > Subject: Re: Newsgroup integration
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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