From: Wietse Venema (wietseporcupine.org)
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 08:42:17 CDT

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Diego Alencar Alves de Lima:
> Em Sex, 2007-08-31 ?s 23:30 -0400, Wietse Venema escreveu:
> > The SMTP server on 127.0.0.1 did not respond to "end of data" within
> > $smtp_data_done_timeout seconds (default 600s, or 10 minutes, as
> > recommended by the RFC).
>
> The messages do not take long to be deferred. I see the error as soon as
> I flush or requeue these particular messages. And this doesn't happen to
> all messages, just some specific few.

I was not aware that the drop was instantaneous.

> Could there be another reason for this message other than a timeout
> while waiting for the smtp response?

Apparently, the filter aborts quickly. The reason for this is likely
written to a logfile, provided that the file permissions aren't
broken to the point that the filter can't write its log.

If nothing is logged, use strace, truss, etc. to diagnose the process.

        Wietse

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