On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 01:30:01PM -0800, Chris St Denis wrote:

>>> Anyway, on to the problems. How do I deal with log entries like this. A 
>>> queue ID is created, but nothing ever happens to it. There is no reject   
>>>   
>>
>> There was one valid recipient, but the mail transaction was not
>> completed.  This could be a header_checks rule, or a network failure
>> or the client crashing.  Any logfile processor will have to deal
>> sessions that do not go from start to end.
>>
>>      Wietse
>>   
> Thanks, but those particular causes doesn't seem to explain it.
>
> This system does not have any header checks (the server it's receiving the 
> mail from does all the spam/etc. filtering) and if it was a network failure 
> or client crashing there should be an additional error message like 
> /^timeout after ([A-Z-]+) (.*)$/ or ^/lost connection after ([A-Z-]+).*from 
> (.*)$/

Only if the connection was lost. The client may have been doing address
validation or a dictionary attack, ... and so can just "QUIT" after
"RCPT TO". Presto-magic, no errors. No message implies connection loss
only after "DATA", not after "RCPT TO".

-- 
        Viktor.

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