Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could help with this error. Our mailservers have
a high mail rate and I am new to qmail (SIGH, another newbie).
Config: smtp store - queue the mail for clients then upon reciept of a
dequeue request, smtp push the mail to the clients remote mail server.
the symptoms:
* Clients continually send dequeue requests from their remote mail
servers to our mail servers. They get no mail delivery yet there are no
obvious errors that they see. We get the following error in our maillog:
qmail: 963870062.032644 delivery 320305: success:
serialsmtp:_fatal:_SMTP_cannot_transfer_messages_with_partial_final_lines/se
rialsmtp:_fatal:_SMTP_cannot_transfer_messages_with_partial_final_lines/seri
alsmtp:_fatal:_SMTP_cannot_transfer
_messages_with_partial_final_lines/maildirserial:_fatal:_making_no_progress,
_giving_up/did_0+0+1/
* A qmail-qstat showed a growing queue, with the majority beloning
to the dequeue user (dequeue requests).
* The number of ports in SYN_RECV state escalated markedly
I found that some of the mail messages themselves had not been terminated
with a "\n", and once I appended "\n" to the end of the file the error
disappeared for a few hours, and the clients reported sucessful mail
delivery, but then the error returned and the clients no longer recieved
their mail. Much of the mail like this was mailing list issue.
Thanks, Gillian
