On 7/30/09 at 11:18 AM -0400 Charlie Brady wrote: >Do they really fail to disconnect *and* continuously retry? That >combination seems umlikely to me.
Of course this has caused my log files to rollover much faster than usual but I did capture the logs for a stretch of 6.0 hours for a single connection. I'll be happy to send you a copy of the relevant portions of my logs if you'd like to see for yourself. This "woodpeckering" has been going on non-stop for the last 4 days. On average each connection was retrying about 25 times per minute. At its peaks there were about 30 connections, each retrying at about 60 times per minute. On 7/30/09 at 12:48 PM -0400 Chris Lewis wrote: >It _could_ be that rejecting at MAIL FROM is the problemmatic bit. Try >delaying the DENYSOFT/DENYSOFT_DISCONNECT to the RCPT TO hook. FWIW, restarting my server didn't make any difference. Delaying the rejection until the RCPT TO hook seems to have solved the problem. I'll keep a close eye on the logs for a while and if this problem doesn't return, I'll submit a patch. Thanks for the ideas! Nedry
