Strange error with MSMilter

Shawn Iverson iversons at rushville.k12.in.us
Tue Nov 20 20:43:26 UTC 2018


Mark,

Thanks for the troubleshooting!  I think that info is enough for me to
reproduce on my end as well. I will take a look at this tonight.

On Tue, Nov 20, 2018 at 3:41 PM Mark Sapiro <mark at msapiro.net> wrote:

> On 11/20/18 11:09 AM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > The other interesting thing in the Postfix log is it looks like the
> > message to webmaster was the second of two transactions in the same SMTP
> > session and further, the MailScanner child was restarted between the two
> > transactions. It is this second message to webmaster that was missing a
> > line, so it is quite possible that the issue occurs to the second of two
> > transactions in the same SMTP session and has nothing to do with a
> > similar message arriving separately at the same time.
>
>
> I have done some simple tests and I can duplicate the issue. The issue
> seems to occur when and only when Postfix receives two separate emails
> in one SMTP session.
>
> I.e. an SMTP session like
>
> connect
> HELO
> MAIL FROM
> RCPT TO
> DATA
> MAIL FROM
> RCPT TO
> DATA
> QUIT
>
> will exhibit the problem in the second message, but
>
> connect
> HELO
> MAIL FROM
> RCPT TO
> DATA
> QUIT
> connect
> MAIL FROM
> RCPT TO
> DATA
> QUIT
>
> Does not exhibit the problem.
>
> I have simple Python 3 scripts that produce the error, but I'm not
> posting them as the server address and email addresses are specific to
> my test machine.
>
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