Re: [Exim] Mail with Attachments get stuck

On Thu, 2004-04-15 at 11:07, Andrew Thomson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 01:13, Kevin Reed wrote:
> > Philip Hazel said:
> > > But it seems to be Exim, and Exim sends the response immediately after
> > > writing that log line. So, what could be wrong?
> > >
> > > (1) The response is getting lost. Not too likely repeatedly.
> > >
> > > (2) The receiving Exim is doing a lot of processing between receiving
> > > the "." line and finally accepting the message. It could be running a
> > > DATA ACL or a local_scan() function. Is this the case? The message is 6M
> > > long, so if some kind of scanning is going on, that could be the cause.
> > >
> > > My money is on (2). You could try increasing the timeouts on the sending
> > > host.
> >
> > The receiving host should not be doing anything with the inbound, but I
> > will check that.
> >
> > As for changing timeouts, are you talking about the
> >
> > -os <time>
> >
> > Setting? The default is 5 minutes and I'm sure it is not taking that long.
> >
>
> I'm just going to chime in here and say that I'm getting the same
> problem. However I have seen it when a user is sending an attachment
> just to another user in the office so the only mta is exim.
>
> I'm also seeing a number of instances where emails are getting "stuck"
> in users outbox's.
>
> Tailing the reject log just reveals
>
> "temporarily rejected after DATA"
>
> I'm thinking the introduction of spamassassin into my setup is causing
> my problems, mainly because I'm scanning every message and not just
> messages > 200k.
>
> Might have to look at changing that and we'll see how we go.

Definitely the problem... Outlook was set up with a 1min timeout.

mx1 spamd[40059]: clean message (-103.1/5.0) for mailnull:26 in 81.1
seconds, 8782242 bytes

Given this was taking longer than 60 seconds, outlook was resending!

At least attachment problem solved!

ajt.