Re: [exim] closed connection in response to end of data

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: Jan-Piet Mens
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] closed connection in response to end of data
On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Jan-Piet Mens wrote:
>
> I have an exim 4.43 on an external gateway talking to a couple of
> exim 4.44 on an internal one. On excess of 30k messages are correctly being
> transferred from outside to inside, except certain messages from
> a single sending domain.
>
> The offending messages get deliveries attempted to the first gateway
> (m1) and if that doesn't work, delivery continues to the second (m2).
> In actual fact, delivery takes place, because the recipients actually
> get the message. My internal m1 host accepts the message, but the
> external Exim logs an "closed connection in response to end of data"
> and continues on to the second MX (m2), where that also happens. In
> effect, all recipients get multiple copies of the message until I
> manually `exim -Mrm' it.


Is there a firewall between the two machines? It might be buggering things
up. The other thing to try is to run the exim daemon in debugging mode on
the recipient host when the problem message is sent.

Tony.
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