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Re: [milter-greylist] sendmail Milter (greylist): to error state

2010-12-17 by manu@netbsd.org

Michael Mansour <mic@...> wrote:

> I've recently noticed I get a lot of these errors on mail servers:
> Dec 17 17:00:14 server sendmail[29303]: oBH6011k029303: Milter (greylist):
> timeout before data read
> Dec 17 17:00:14 server sendmail[29303]: oBH6011k029303: Milter (greylist): to
> error state

That happens if the milter dies, or if sendmail decides the request to
the milter has timed out. The later can easily happen when
milter-greylist perfoms DNS queries. 

Upgrade the timeout in sendmail.cf to fix the problem.

-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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