msmilter connect timeouts.

[Shawn Iverson]

Mark,

How many milter children do you have configured?

On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 10:03 PM Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> I have installed MailScanner 5.1.2-2 and am running with msmilter.
> Sometimes the connect from postfix to the milter times out after 30
> seconds. If thin occurs on a message reinjected by the milter, other
> than the delay, it is not a problem, but if it occurs on an incoming
> message, MailScanner is bypassed for that message.
>
> Here are some relevant log entries for one such message.
>
> Oct 31 09:05:53 sbh16 postfix/smtpd[10899]: connect from
> fg90.mta.exacttarget.com[13.111.54.90]
>
> Oct 31 09:06:23 sbh16 postfix/smtpd[10899]: warning: milter
> inet:127.0.0.1:33333: can't read SMFIC_OPTNEG reply packet header:
> Connection timed out
>
> Oct 31 09:06:23 sbh16 postfix/smtpd[10899]: warning: milter
> inet:127.0.0.1:33333: read error in initial handshake
>
> Followed by the normal postfix messages, but the milter is bypassed so
> MailScanner is never invoked for this message.
>
> This does not always occur. It occured 13 times so far on Oct 31. In the
> same period, there are 1159 'status=sent' log entries, so it seems to
> affect roughly 1% of messages.
>
> I haven't looked at the code so I have no idea why it might occasionaly
> time out, but perhaps it is RBL lookups or similar. In any case it might
> be good to put a shorter timeout on such things within the milter itself
> so MailScanner can be invoked.
>
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> San Francisco Bay Area, California    better use your sense - B. Dylan
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Shawn Iverson, CETL
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