Re: [Exim] SMTP incoming data timeout - closing connection

On 12 Jan 2001 12:30:22 +0200 Philip Hazel wrote:

>On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Dmitry Alyabyev wrote:
>
>> I've just upgraded from exim 2-* to exim 3-20 and now I have some
>> strange situation. Some messages are in queue for long time with the
>> messages "SMTP incoming data timeout - closing connection" in
>> exim_mainlog.
>
>That doesn't make sense. Messages in the queue are outgoing messages.
>The error "SMTP incoming data timeout" indicates an error on in incoming
>message.

No, no, no ...
It looks like "SMTP error from remote mailer after end of data: host
a.a.a [x.x.x.x]: 421 a.a.a SMTP incoming data timeout - closing co
nnection."

>> When I've tried to deal with the messages, I found that all of them
>> doesn't have CR/LF on the final line. And when I added the CR/LF to
>> the final line the messages go out without any problems.
>
>I will run some tests when I get a moment to see if there is a problem
>here. Exim should be able to handle messages without a final LF. It
>should add one.

It should but it dosn't. Now I run old (2.12) version of exim (as
workaround) and it works well.


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Dimitry