FW: residual mails

[Remco Barendse]

Yes indeed, I checked my sendmail logs and it looks as if the mail
transfer was aborted while transferring the e-mail. Usually the sending
MTA will resend the message some time later.


On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, S Mohan wrote:

> I checked the message contents. They were valid mails which were truncated.
> Is it possible that these are fragments of incomplete SMTP transactions or
> transactions that timed out half way thro'?
>
> Mohan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Remco Barendse
> Sent: 22 October 2002 13:58
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: FW: residual mails
>
>
> I get these occasional messages that get stuck in the queue too. From what
> I can see it's alsmost always spam where they tried some funny stuff to get
> the spam through your mailserver.
>
> Wouldn't worry about it too much unless it gets to several messages a day
> piling up.
>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, S Mohan wrote:
>
> > Addendum to my earlier mail. This looks like sendmail behaviour as I see
> > files in mqueue directory also where df and xf files exist but no qf
> files.
> > mailq returns empty queue. The xf file only seems to contain one line of
> > data saying "<<< DATA".
> >
> > Thus I surmised moving the files from mqueue.in to mqueue directory would
> > not help. This means my machine is gobbling up mails - gives me a scary
> > feeling. Can someone help me with this please? I'm posting this to
> sendmail
> > list also to see if I get a response.
> >
> > Mohan
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
> > Sent: 22 October 2002 13:25
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: residual mails
> >
> >
> > I've upgraded to 4.xx version released. Thanks Julian. I feel a major
> > enhancement is the facility to use rules for any setting. Great feature
> > apart from the speed and enhancement of vulnerability protection.
> >
> > Over the past few months, I've noticed that some residual dfxxxxx files
> > remain in the mqueue.in directory. Mailscanner does not seem to flush them
> > at all into the regular mail queue. Why would this happen and can we force
> > mailscanner to process these mails?
> >
> > In V4 rules, can we specify a not condition using a ! before the match
> > string for exclusion?
> >
> > Bye
> > S Mohan, Vectra Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd.,
> > smohan at vectrasystems.com <mailto:smohan at vectrasystems.com>  visit us at
> > www.vectrasystems.com <http://www.vectrasystems.com/>
> >
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