[ale] Sendmail delivery timeout

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Thu Sep 29 13:11:42 EDT 2011


Sorry - I meant to say,

206 seconds separate the connection attempts from MAILSERVER4 to
BARRACUDA5-1 or -2 *and the timeouts.


On 9/29/11 1:08 PM, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> I have a problem where a Sendmail server will timeout on a user's
> outbound message, apparently upon trying to reach a set of load-balanced
> Barracude spam filters:
>
> Sep 28 13:35:25 mailserver4 sendmail[30969]: p8SHZPtR030969:
> from=<john at bio.foo.bar>, size=1569685, class=0, nrcpts=2,
> msgid=<0C4C4C48-8BE8-4FF8-8F58-42D7F6024DBA at bio.foo.bar>, proto=ESMTP,
> daemon=MTA, relay=deliverator.foo.bar [130.207.165.163]
> Sep 28 13:35:25 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969: alias
> <agape at ccr.foo.bar>  =>  skeletor at gmail.com, agro246 at mail.foo.bar
> Sep 28 13:35:25 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969: alias
> <hakamoto at ccr.foo.bar>  =>  hakamoto at comail.green.org,
> hakamoto at comail.green.org
> Sep 28 13:35:26 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969: SMTP
> outgoing connect on mailserver4
> Sep 28 13:38:52 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969:
> SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to barracuda5-1.green.org.:
> Connection reset by barracuda5-1.green.org.
> Sep 28 13:38:52 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969: SMTP
> outgoing connect on mailserver4
> Sep 28 13:42:18 mailserver4 sendmail[30970]: p8SHZPtR030969:
> SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to barracuda5-2.green.org.:
> Connection reset by barracuda5-2.green.org.
>
> Message in question did have a significant attachment (PDF) but its size
> is not known to me.
>
> 206 seconds separate the connection attempts from MAILSERVER4 to
> BARRACUDA5-1 or -2.  If I want to increase the timeout in Sendmail,
> there are a bunch of choices (see grep output below) but none of them
> nor any obvious combination of them appear to yield 206 seconds.  What
> to do?
>
>
> # open connection cache timeout
> O ConnectionCacheTimeout=5m
> # timeouts (many of these)
> #O Timeout.initial=5m
> #O Timeout.connect=5m
> #O Timeout.aconnect=0s
> #O Timeout.iconnect=5m
> #O Timeout.helo=5m
> #O Timeout.mail=10m
> #O Timeout.rcpt=1h
> #O Timeout.datainit=5m
> #O Timeout.datablock=1h
> #O Timeout.datafinal=1h
> #O Timeout.rset=5m
> #O Timeout.quit=2m
> #O Timeout.misc=2m
> #O Timeout.command=1h
> #O Timeout.ident=5s
> #O Timeout.fileopen=60s
> #O Timeout.control=2m
> O Timeout.queuereturn=7d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.normal=5d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.urgent=2d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent=7d
> #O Timeout.queuereturn.dsn=5d
> O Timeout.queuewarn=2d
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.normal=4h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.urgent=1h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent=12h
> #O Timeout.queuewarn.dsn=4h
> #O Timeout.hoststatus=30m
> #O Timeout.resolver.retrans=5s
> #O Timeout.resolver.retrans.first=5s
> #O Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal=5s
> #O Timeout.resolver.retry=4
> #O Timeout.resolver.retry.first=4
> #O Timeout.resolver.retry.normal=4
> #O Timeout.lhlo=2m
> #O Timeout.auth=10m
> #O Timeout.starttls=1h
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