Exim timeouts - MailScanner related

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Fri Nov 16 09:10:22 GMT 2007


On 15/11/2007, Richard Thomas <richard.thomas at psysolutions.com> wrote:
> Here's some more info on this:
>
> The message is definitely being received by Exim fine. Here is the
> output of a packet capture on the incoming SMTP connection:
>
> <TD WIDTH=1><IMG SRC="http://topica.com/images/footer_cap3.gif"
> WIDTH="1" HEIGHT
> ="24" BORDER="0"></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </center>
> <BR><BR><BR><BR>
> </body></html>
>
>
> .
> QUIT
>
> Note the two blank lines between the end of the text and the period.
> MailsScanner is picking this up, doing its magic and deposting it in the
> outqueue with a final line that does not end with a CRLF. Exim expects
> this CRLF to be present as it simply adds the period to the end (This
> makes sense if the queue usually works by storing anything up to the
> final period though some sanity checking would be a good thing).
>
> The message affected has been "Disarmed" and web bugs replaced with
> MailScanner warnings if that makes any difference. I would imagine this
> is likely to be a simple fix.
>
> Rich
>
Did you mention which version of MS you use?

Cheers
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