How to investigate timeouts?

[Glenn Steen]

    [ The following text is in the "ISO-8859-1" character set. ]
    [ Your display is set for the "US-ASCII" character set.  ]
    [ Some characters may be displayed incorrectly. ]

2005/7/18, Jody Cleveland <Cleveland at winnefox.org>:
> > If it's SpamAssassin timeout, may be looking at whether there
> > is bayes expiry issue.
> 
> I did a search in maillog for 'timeout' and came up with quite a few
> like this:
> 
> Jul 17 08:12:37 destiny postfix/smtpd[5719]: timeout after DATA from
> unknown[210.124.232.177]
> Jul 17 08:12:37 destiny postfix/smtpd[5719]: disconnect from
> unknown[210.124.232.177]
> Jul 17 08:12:37 destiny postfix/cleanup[5721]: 7867F3E4011: hold: header
> Received: from 199.242.176.200 (unknown [210.124.232.177])??by
> destiny.winnefox.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7867F3E4011??for
> <boehning at winnefox.org>; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:06:48 -0500 (CDT) from
> unknown[210.124.232.177]; from=<sado87sdafsdfd213srdd at hotmail.com>
> to=<boehning at winnefox.org> proto=SMTP helo=<199.242.176.200>
> Jul 17 08:12:37 destiny postfix/cleanup[5721]: 7867F3E4011: hold: header
> Received: from (HELO nzlpz16) [140.165.249.179] by 199.242.176.200 id
> <8106350-26209>; Sun, 17 Jul 2005 16:00:05 +0300 from
> unknown[210.124.232.177]; from=<sado87sdafsdfd213srdd at hotmail.com>
> to=<boehning at winnefox.org> proto=SMTP helo=<199.242.176.200>
> Jul 17 08:12:37 destiny postfix/cleanup[5721]: 7867F3E4011:
> message-id=<wtm$6i3h--9316a at 6n9.7rb>
> 
> It doesn't seem to be bayes, but any ideas what may be causing that
> timeout?
> 
> - jody
Um, that's not MS at all.... Just postfix reporting a remote (sender)
behaving badly. It's not clear to me if you are accepting a message
from that, or if you are seeing more than one messages from the same
sender, one going through and one timing out.

One possible reason for this kind of thing is that you (or someone
else) have a firewall "in between" that "cuts" the connection
prematurely... or some more idiotic spammer foolery.

Not really an MS issue, and perhaps not even _your_ issue;-).

-- 
-- Glenn
email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se

------------------------ MailScanner list ------------------------
To unsubscribe, email jiscmail at jiscmail.ac.uk with the words:
'leave mailscanner' in the body of the email.
Before posting, read the Wiki (http://wiki.mailscanner.info/) and
the archives (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/mailscanner.html).

Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!