Re: mail delivery error 421

First of all, thanks to lst_hoe01 , m and Wietse for answering me.

To lst_hoe01: I used Microsoft Outlook 2003 :( not a webmail app.

To m: this message should be in plain text :), sorry about that (damn
Outlook defaults...). You said "It is probable that your client is resending
the message every three minutes." OK, but my outbox is empty. I went over
every options and found nothing regarding resending a message every 3
minutes... and in my sent items list, it only appears once (from the
original time I sent it - wouldn't it be there every 3 minutes since then if
I was sending it over and over again?). Plus, the message kept on sending
all night even though I closed my Windows session from the server at 4:30pm
(Outlook won't send a message if Outlook is closed...) On top of that, my
boss (the message's recipient), gets a mangled copy of the message ending in
error. Shouldn't Postfix recognize this, return me an error and NOT send
the message if it is erroneous?

Since my recipient receives the message, I assume Outlook passed it
correctly to Postfix who then delivered it to the recipient's Maildir.
Therefore Outlook's job is complete and it shouldn't send it again right
(correct me if I'm wrong)?

If you have any other idea let me know. Could restarting Postfix help?
(I'll save that as a last resort obviously)

To Wietse: sorry, I didn't understand what you response meant. The client
must prepend another "."? If so, any idea what I can do about that in my
case?


I'll keep searching...

Thanks to all,

FJ


Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 12:14:59 -0400
From: m <m@telerama.com>
Subject: 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