On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Martijn Brinkers wrote:
> On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>> Zitat von Martijn Brinkers <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Hello
>>>>
>>>> today i discovered that a mail was moved by Djigzo/James to the error
>>>> spool and not get delivered. It is obvious some malformed spam but i
>>>> don't like mail to dissapear at all.
>>>>
>>>> The error simply was
>>>>
>>>> 02 May 2011 05:11:10 | ERROR **** Message is stored in ERROR spool ****
>>>> | MailID: 256ee399-8e31-4a15-b7f1-ccf7c8784ada; Originator: <>; Sender:
>>>> "internetteam@"@standardbank.co.za;
>>>> (mitm.application.djigzo.james.mailets.Log) [Spool Thread #2]
>>>
>>> Messages should only be stored in the error spool when a message is so
>>> badly malformed that Javamail cannot handle them.
>>>
>>> Are you sure the message is not stored in the error spool? (see Queues
>>> -> MPA error)
>>
>> Of course it is stored in the error spool but for normal operation no
>> one is looking at the logs to see if something was moved out of the way.
>> I prefer that Djigzo/James would simply pass it on to Postfix if
>> Javamail is not able to do anything useful with it. Maybe it is possible
>> to generate a alert per mail to some admin account in this case?
> 
> Normally every email should be delivered even if it's badly malformed.
> The error handler is a last resort for cases that are not handled. If I
> know what content of the email actually caused this I can perhaps fix
> why it didn't handle the email more gracefully.

I have a test gateway which receives lots (thousands a day) of spam (all
incoming email is immediately delivered to /dev/null) to test the
gateway against all kinds of malformed email. In 1.5 years time no email
has ever been stored in the error spool. That's why I am curious what
the email looked like :)

Kind regards,

Martijn


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