The situation is, that messages for certain (but not all) recipients
on a VMS-PMDF system do not get delivered from qmail. PMDF issues
odd error messages or drops the connections, on only these users.
Messages to other users go through fine.
I have a sloppy working fix of setting up a smtproute to the
PMDF box through a relay running (boo, hiss) sendmail. Messages
to these same users neither bounce nor hang up in sendmail's queue:
these users don't have full mailboxes or something like that.
Does anyone have an idea what might be happening and how to fix it?
Here are qmail's two styles of log entries from the failed attempts:
Oct 26 00:46:51 gungadin qmail: 940916811.156160 delivery 30: deferral:
Connected_to_134.193.4.1_but_
connection_died._(#4.4.2)/
Oct 26 14:45:45 gungadin qmail: 940967145.640832 delivery 60: deferral:
134.193.4.2_failed_after_I_se
nt_the_message./Remote_host_said:_421_4.4.2_Timeout_while_waiting_for_command./
The PMDF site has a mention of qmail relating to the periods which
end SMTP data, but that is all.
The messages involved in these failed delivery attempts were identical
to messages to other PMDF users which went through without difficulty.
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David Nicol 816.235.1187 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
"ereiamjh"
