Re: mail delivery error 421

> From: Mailing List <mailinglist@mea.ca>
> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 11:48:36 -0400
> To: <postfix-users@postfix.org>
> Subject: mail delivery error 421

1.) Please post messages only in PLAIN TEXT!

>
> Hi, first off, I'm kinda new to Postfix. I read Postfix The Definitive
> Guide (O'Reilly) and subscribed to this mailing list to get better. This is
> the first problem I've encountered that I haven't been able to fix yet. The
> problem is this : I sent an email to my boss and he received it but it only
> contained the first 5 lines approximately and finished with :
>
> */*/*error:jserver%%PID%%_error.log,*/*/*error:jserver%%PID%%_error.jsl,*/*/
>
> fatalerror:.../_beans/com.sco.tta.server.log.ConsoleSink,*/*/warningerror:.=
>
>
>
> Now, every 3 minutes, he gets this message again and I keep getting an error
> sent back to the Postmaster (subject :Postfix SMTP server: errors from
> localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]).

What mail client are you using?

It is probable that your client is resending the message every three
minutes.

> I want to get rid of this and I bet it's
> something silly but I need to be enlightened. Here is the message sent back
> to the Postmaster:
>
> -------------------------


(removed to keep this short & sweet)

>
>
> Session aborted, reason: too many errors
>
> ------------------
>
> Every time I get this message, it is queued as a different number

Of course. The message is being resent by your mail client. Each message
MUST have a unique message ID. So, Postfix is doing its job by giving each
message a unique ID. Postfix doesn't "care" if its the same as another
message which was previously sent -- each connection is a "new" message".

> and when I
> check my maillog for this number I always get something like this :
>
> # grep 298EE1E4010 /var/log/maillog
>
> Oct 19 10:38:32 server_name postfix/smtpd[1537]: 298EE1E4010:
> client=localhost.localdomain[127.0.0.1]
>
> Oct 19 10:38:32 server_name postfix/cleanup[1454]: 298EE1E4010:
> message-id=<20041013173614.7AA651E4010@mail.mea.ca>
>
> Oct 19 10:38:32 server_name postfix/nqmgr[1298]: 298EE1E4010:
> from=<my_address@my_domain>, size=2032, nrcpt=1 (queue active)
>
> Oct 19 10:38:32 server_name postfix/local[1928]: 298EE1E4010:
> to=<boss_address@my_domain>, relay=local, delay=0, status=sent (maildir)
>
>
>
> Judging by the line ": 354 End data with <CR><LF>.<CR><LF>" in the message
> sent back, it seems to me like Postfix interprets some part of the email as
> the end of the message and is trying to process the rest as commands, hence
> the errors. I've checked all the queues in /var/spool/postfix and with
> "postqueue -p" (which says the queue is empty)

Yes. The message was delivered.

> but got no sign of this
> message anywhere. I googled the error but found nothing related, I searched
> the mailing list archives but got discouraged after an hour without finding
> anything, I also checked the FAQs from Ralf and Kyle but didn't find
> anything.
>
>
>
> If I've overlooked something, if you need other info or if I got discouraged
> too quickly and there is something related somewhere in the archives, please
> bring it to my attention and I will gladly take it from there. Basically, I
> just want to delete this message and move on to something else.

Delete it on your MUA.

>
>
>
> This mail is long enough so I wont send the result of "postconf -n" but if
> it's needed, reply and I will.
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance,
>
>
>
> FJ
>