[Greylist-users] occasional TEMPFAIL on whitelisted IP's

[Evan Harris]

Make sure you have not specified the F=T option on your INPUT_MAIL_FILTER
line in sendmail.mc.

Evan


On Thu, 25 Mar 2004, Martin Potgieter wrote:

> Hi list,
>
> I am getting occasional TEMPFAIL's on IP addresses that are
> whitelisted.  This does not happen all the time but it is a problem.  I
> have set the "$pass_mail_when_db_unavail = 1" but am still getting the
> problem.  The database is on another machine so the queries are going
> over the network but sendmail only has on average 30-40 active
> connections so the server is not that busy.  here are log entries from
> the different sources
>
> This is the mail server sending the mail to our server:
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
>
> Mar 24 15:58:57 mail sendmail[32353]: i2ODwu91032353:
> from=<theresa at domain1.com>, size=13570, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<000b01c411a8$a04411d0$aa0d10ac at THERESA>, relay=root at localhost
> Mar 24 15:59:44 mail sendmail[32356]: i2ODwu91032353:
> to=<wendyb at anotheraddress.com>, ctladdr=<theresa at domain1.com> (564/564),
> delay=00:00:48, xdelay=00:00:47, mailer=relay, pri=30880,
> relay=mail.domain2.com. [x.x.x.129], dsn=4.0.0, stat=Deferred: 451 4.7.1
> Please try again later (TEMPFAIL)
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
>
>
> This is our servers log of it:
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
>
> Mar 24 15:59:54 mail sendmail[6099]: i2ODxFnl006099:
> from=<theresa at domain1.com>, size=13686, class=0, nrcpts=1,
> msgid=<000b01c411a8$a04411d0$aa0d10ac at THERESA>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA,
> relay=mail.domain1.com [y.y.y.226]
> Mar 24 15:59:54 mail sendmail[6099]: i2ODxFnl006099: Milter: data,
> reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later (TEMPFAIL)
> Mar 24 15:59:54 mail sendmail[6099]: i2ODxFnl006099:
> to=<wendyb at anotheraddress.com>, delay=00:00:20, pri=43686, stat=Please
> try again later (TEMPFAIL)
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
>
> I switched debug on on relaydelay.conf ... this is its relevant output:
>
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
> === 2004-03-24 15:59:34 ===
> Stored Sender: <theresa at domain1.com>
> Passed Recipient: <wendyb at anotheraddress.com>
>   Relay: mail.domain1.com [y.y.y.226] - If_Addr: x.x.x.129
>   RelayIP: y.y.y.226 - RelayName: mail.domain1.com - RelayIdent:  -
> PossiblyForged: 0
>   From: theresa at domain1.com - To: wendyb at anotheraddress.com
>   InMailer: xamime - OutMailer: xamime - QueueID: i2ODxFnl006099
>   Whitelisted Relay.  Skipping checks and passing the mail.
> -----------------------------------------------------8<------------------------------------------------
>
> you will notice that the OutMailer is "xamime" it is a commercial
> scanner that runs with sendmail.  I don't know if that is causing the
> problem or not.  Any input is welcome...
>
> TIA
>
> Martin
>
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