For the past couple days we have been experiencing a very high volume of failures with Mimedefang and Spamassassin. Over 90% of the messages are either Read Receipts or Delivered Receipts. Mimedefang and sendmail are posting the "reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later". Below is a full exerpt from the mail log on one of these failures.
Mar 4 08:36:22 smtp2 sendmail[17411]: i24EaLUE017411: from=<>, size=2761, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, bodytype=8BITMIME, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=ssf163a.dhl.com [199.41.197.163] Mar 4 08:36:32 smtp2 sendmail[17411]: i24EaLUE017411: Milter (mimedefang): timeout before data read Mar 4 08:36:32 smtp2 sendmail[17411]: i24EaLUE017411: Milter (mimedefang): to error state Mar 4 08:36:32 smtp2 sendmail[17411]: i24EaLUE017411: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later Mar 4 08:36:32 smtp2 sendmail[17411]: i24EaLUE017411: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:00:11, pri=32761, stat=Please try again later Mar 4 08:36:33 smtp2 mimedefang.pl[14222]: MDLOG,i24EaLUE017411,spam,-3.25,199.41.197.163,<>,<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Ret urn receipt Mar 4 08:36:33 smtp2 mimedefang[17412]: i24EaLUE017411: smfi_addrcpt returned MI_FAILURE Mar 4 08:36:33 smtp2 mimedefang[17412]: i24EaLUE017411: smfi_chgheader returned MI_FAILURE Mar 4 08:36:33 smtp2 mimedefang[17412]: i24EaLUE017411: smfi_addheader returned MI_FAILURE The only change we have made is added a filter_sender to bypass known senders. We have disabled this filter but are still experiencing the errors. Any help or recommendations are greatly appreciated. Thanks. Jim Crippen Sr LAN Administrator Elite Transportation [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: 281-775-2100 _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

