Re: master.debian.org randomly deferring mail
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 06:29:45PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > > 0C175AA583 2389 Thu Mar 27 01:12:55 joey@kitenet.net
> > > (host master.debian.org[65.125.64.135] said: 451 rejected: can't currently verify any sender in the header lines (envelope sender is <joey@kitenet.net>) - try later (in reply to end of DATA command))
> > >
> > > I've no idea what master is trying to do to "verify any sender in the
> > > header lines".
> >
> > That's the headers_sender_verify Exim setting. For some reason, it couldn't
> > verify that the envelope sender existed for those messages. You would need
> > to look at exim logs on master to see what exactly tripped over the wire.
>
> Which logs? James helped me look at the rejectlog earlier, but it had
> nothing useful in it.
My rejectlog* has sections like this one:
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2003-04-04 19:43:14 191VDc-0001L5-00 rejected from 54.c218-184-169.ethome.net.tw (system) [218.184.169.54]: there is no valid sender in any header line (envelope sender is <mAT4j8Sdv10W@tcts1.seed.net.tw>)
Recipients: joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr
joy@cibalia.gkvk.hr
P Received: from 54.c218-184-169.ethome.net.tw ([218.184.169.54] helo=system)
by cibalia.gkvk.hr with smtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian))
id 191VDc-0001L5-00; Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:43:13 +0200
P Received: from ksts
by tcts1.seed.net.tw with SMTP id Qz0Jg2Bh50wNvSfroma3ZwQbm;
Sat, 05 Apr 2003 01:34:47 +0800
I Message-ID: <twmdUQIuM7edQ@microsoft.com>
F From: lulu
T To: \1920304-4.TXT, \1920304-2.TXT, \1920304-3.TXT, \1920304-1.TXT
Subject:=?big5?Q?=A5=FE=B0=EA=B2=C4=A4@?=
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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 19:43:13 +0200
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To quote the documentation,
Exim insists on there being at least one verifyable address in one of the
"Sender:", "Reply-To:", or "From:" headers (which are checked in that order)
on all incoming SMTP messages. If one cannot be found, the message is
rejected, unless "headers_checks_fail" is unset, in which case a warning
entry is written to the reject log.
So you'd first have to get something like the above log, and if that doesn't
happen, unset headers_checks_fail and see what kind of a warning it logs, if
any.
Frankly I find it very surprising that it would not log "anything useful"
in rejections, but then, that does happen to be a potato version...
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