Timeout Errors??

[Julian Field]

At 16:32 04/03/2003, you wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Gerry Doris [mailto:gerry at dorfam.ca]
> > Sent: 04 March 2003 15:44
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: Timeout Errors??
> >
> > h23LOsk01793: timeout waiting for input from local during
> > Draining Input
> >
> >
> > What exactly are these telling me?  They appear to be
> > sendmail errors but
> > is it because sendmail is acting up or has it something to do with
> > MailScanner?
>
>The sendmail distribution KNOWNBUGS document has the following:
>
>* Delivery to programs that generate too much output may cause problems
>
>   If e-mail is delivered to a program which generates too much
>   output, then sendmail may issue an error:
>
>   timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input
>
>   Make sure that the program does not generate output beyond a
>   status message (corresponding to the exit status).  This may
>   require a wrapper around the actual program to redirect output
>   to /dev/null.

In which case the problem you are seeing is from whatever program sendmail
is running to do the actual delivery of messages. Nothing to do with
MailScanner.
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Julian Field
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