Topic: email panic after ezmlm problem

[marsa_matruh]

I installed ezmlm on my server :
ezmlm-web-2.1-SME7
e-smith-ezmlm-web-1.1.1-SME7
ezmlm-toaster-0.53.324-1.2.5

All was fine. But this morning, I sent a message on a mailing list with an attached file larger than the authorized size. And now, emails hangs, not only ezmlm.

Error message from ezmlm is duplicated each five minutes in the sender mailbox, which is also hosted on the same server :

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Hi. This is the qmail-send program at eric.sibert.fr.
I'm afraid I wasn't able to deliver your message to the following addresses.
This is a permanent error; I've given up. Sorry it didn't work out.

<liste-xxxxx@xxx.xx>:
ezmlm-reject: fatal: Sorry, I don't accept messages larger than 300000 bytes (#5.2.3)

--- Below this line is a copy of the message.


In an other mailbox, which does not have anything to do with the mailing list, a regular message is also duplicated at the same frequency.

The server hangs,  with spamd, clamd and qpsmtpd-forkser as top processes.

How to stop all this? (I already restarted the server without any change).

[bpivk]

Bugtracker maybe?

[marsa_matruh]

I'm thinking about bugtracker (for ezmlm oversize) but I need a quick way to restore my mail server.

[Normando]

Use the search box.

Read
http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/contribs/rmitchell/smeserver/howto/ezmlm-web%20HOWTO%20for%20sme%20server.htm
under
"Modifying the default configuration:"
tittle

[marsa_matruh]

What's to do with my problem? I don't want to change the allowed size of messages.

[bpivk]

Report it as a bug so the devs work on your problem. This would be the fastest solution.

[marsa_matruh]

Done in bug 2745.

So now, how do I stop the crazy email server from duplicating the error message?

[marsa_matruh]

I tried to clean qmail queue :

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service qmail stop

find /var/qmail/queue/info ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/local ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/mess ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/remote ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;
find /var/qmail/queue/todo ! -type d -exec rm -f {} \;

service qmail start


No change.

[marsa_matruh]

I found the problem. I am also using fetchmail. And the error message was standing in the remote mailbox. It was not deleted by fetchmail after being catched. So I deleted it manually.