Right, I recall reading that from the archives. How does one go about
either,
denying the problem mailer from sending email
or
changing qmail to deal with it in the right way?
--
Sean Peterson
System Administrator
Valley Internet Providers Ltd.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Could it be a DOS on your SMTP port(s)?
>
> Perhaps an elaboration is in order. If you go:
>
> telnet yoursmtpserver smtp
> mail from: <me>
> rcpt to: <me>
> data
>
> and leave it there without closing the connection or completing
> the SMTP transaction, you will have a situation pretty similar to
> the one you describe; a qmail-queue process that sits around until
> qmail-smtpd times out and a zero length file in mess/* and no files
> elsewhere.
>
> I don't necessarily mean a malicious DOS. It may be a lame SMTP client
> getting confused at the same point in the transaction and subsequently
> getting wedged for some reason.
>
> Regards.
