[Greylist-users] TEMPFAIL sometimes?

[Evan Harris]

If you are using the stock milter, check the lines in your syslog.  If the
rejection messages have the string "(TEMPFAIL)" at the end, then the milter
processed the message.  If they do not have (TEMPFAIL) in them, then
the milter was unable to process the message and sendmail is actually
failing the message, not the milter.

What is your milter config line in sendmail.mc?  What does the syslog
contain for a mail having this problem?

Evan


On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Harald Schmitz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've got the same effect and make same test's with a modem-connection.
>
> Some times the messages is delivered, sometimes i got a tempfail.
>
> I write a test script like:
>
>  telnet .... 25
>    hello ...
>    mail from ..
>    rcpt to ..
>    data
>    subject: test
>     (sleep 90)
>    .
>    quit
>
> The effect is also here, sometimes delivery other times tempfail.
>
> The debug output from the milter shows no errors, but the EOM-CALLBACK
> lines where not printed in the log-file for this tempfail Mails
>
> There is also no increment in the database entry.
>
> Can somebody help, is it a timeout in sendmail ?
>
> Best Regards
> Harry
>
>
>
> Alan Batie wrote:
> >
> > I've got a user who dials in with PPP and sends mail with a standard PC
> > client.  The weird thing is that normal text messages are working, but
> > when he sends a zip file attachment, it's rejected:
> >
> > Nov 20 06:46:07 agora sendmail[3318]: hAKEj40q003318: from=<localuser at rdrop.com>, size=135041, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<000b01c3af74$e827dea0$45ac1ac7 at BigBird>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=dialup-69.rdrop.com [199.26.172.69]
> > Nov 20 06:46:07 agora sendmail[3318]: hAKEj40q003318: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later (TEMPFAIL)
> >
> > Nov 18 06:29:09 agora sendmail[11796]: hAIET2vE011796: from=<localuser at rdrop.com>, size=1055, class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<002501c3ade0$54fb9800$49ac1ac7 at BigBird>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=dialup-73.rdrop.com [199.26.172.73]
> > Nov 18 06:29:11 agora sendmail[11826]: hAIET2vE011796: to=<destination at somewhere.com>, ctladdr=<localuser at rdrop.com> (6757/101), delay=00:00:03, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=30491, relay=mx3.pacifier.net. [64.255.238.218], dsn=2.0.0, stat=Sent (Ok: queued as 6BE506F4D1)
> >
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