On Thu, Mar 10, 2022 at 10:35:01AM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > I am using a milter that uses a connection timeout of five minutes, ie
> > this milter simply closes the connection from Postfix after five minutes
> > of silence.
>
> If the problem is that email arrives slowly (800 bytes/second) and
> you actually want to receive that email, then setting a short timeout
> on the Milter side is not helpful.
There could also be latency in any prior milters, and in processing RBL
lookups for individual recipients, plus any slow lookups in data
restrictions. Milter connections overlap at least part of the envelope
processing, and when multiple milters are specified they're processed in
order.
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Viktor.
