Re: zmailer sending to a DCC system problem

[James MacKinnon <jmack@phys.ualberta.ca>]

Hi Matti,

An additional difficulty (v 2.99.55) that I see here is that 
zmailer appears to push MAIL, RCPT and DATA sequences all together, 
not waiting for any result codes first (2xx on MAIL, 4xx on RCPT).

For a remote greylisting site, it would normally send back a 4xx after 
RCPT on first contact, but since zmailer didn't wait for it, this causes 
the remote to send back a 5xx code in response to the premature DATA 
segment, which is then taken as a permanent failure (and the message 
never survives for retry in the queue). Here's an example log trail:

x.x03416w  MAIL From:<xxx@aa.bb.cc> BODY=8BITMIME SIZE=29618
x.x03416w  RCPT To:<bbb@xx.yy.zz> NOTIFY=FAILURE,DELAY \
           ORCPT=rfc822;bbb@xx.yy.zz
x.x03416w  DATA
x.x03416r  250 2.1.0 <xxx@aa.bb.cc>... Sender ok
x.x03416r  451 4.7.1 Please try again later (TEMPFAIL)
x.x03416r  503 5.0.0 Need RCPT (recipient)
x.x03416#  smtp_sync() did yield code 75
x.x03416w  QUIT

- at least this is the sequence in the smtp log - perhaps the log is 
not time-sync'd, and the entries not really in that, I don't know.


It's as if the process continues on without regard to response codes 
( not waiting for 2xx after RCPT and pushing DATA before it really 
should).


Any ideas on how to get the proper sequencing (if indeed this is a
problem in smtp.c )?

Cheers
-Jim

On Tue, 23 Mar 2004, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Tue, Mar 23, 2004 at 09:11:03AM -0400, Stuart Chase wrote:
> > Should there be any issue with zmailer 2.99.55 sending to a site 
> > using DCC ?  
> > Is the 4xx error code (temporary failure) handled correctly with 
> > 2.99.55 so that zmailer will resend the message or do I need to 
> > upgrade zmailer to get this functionality?
> 
>   I am unsure of what "DCC" is -- UTFG gave: "DCC Greylist".
> 
>   It will cause message to be pushed into "try again latter"
>   queue, which gets retries after backoff time. (e.g. up to
>   several hours latter.)
> 
>   Apparently the default DCC Wait Delay  is mere 4.5 minutes,
>   which will highly likely push back the delivery attempt
>   the second time around..
> 
>   Queue retry time handling in ZMailer scheduler could use some
>   reworking.  E.g. should the backoff be reset, when any message
>   makes it thru successfully within individual queue ?
> 
> 
> > Thanks,
> > Stuart
> 

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