On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 03:16:55PM +0000, F�bio Gomes wrote:
> Taymour A. El Erian wrote:
>
> >Hi,
> >
> > I know this has been discussed earlier. I can not restart qmail, if I
> >do restart it qmail-send doesn't stop and then you get qmail-todo
> >exiting ASAP in the qmail-send log file and I have to kill qmail-send
> >then start it again. Is there a solution for this problem.
>
> The above occurs with my instalation also. I assume this is happening
> because qmail-remote needs to quit the connection with the remote host
> before exit. But some email host outside there are really slow and
> quiting the transaction or even close the connection due timeout
> (/var/qmail/control/timeoutremote) takes a little time. qmail starts to
> send messages as supposed when it close the last 'turtle' connection.
>
The interesting thing is if qmail-todo is still running or not.
> >
> >Another point, My LDAP server NIC got toasted so LDAP was done qmail
> >bounces messages directly to senders saying no mailbox here by that
> >name, shouldn't the messages be kept in the queue if the ldap times out.
> >
>
> Again this have happened with me. Ok, if I shutdown my LDAP server the
> messages will wait in the queue until the LDAP becomes available again.
> But, if in any moment, the LDAP server becomes slow enough (due lack of
> index or high cpu usage), the search timeout is reached and the sender
> recieve a bounce just as described above.
>
>
> PS.: I have read Claudio's reply for this topic, but I thought this
> could reinforce the case.
>
OK, had a deep look at the timeout code and ... puff found the bug:
diff -u -r1.27 qldap-ldaplib.c
--- qldap-ldaplib.c 27 Sep 2002 09:18:14 -0000 1.27
+++ qldap-ldaplib.c 20 Nov 2002 18:04:25 -0000
@@ -330,9 +330,10 @@
case LDAP_TIMELIMIT_EXCEEDED:
case LDAP_BUSY:
qldap_errno = LDAP_SEARCH_TIMEOUT;
-
+ break;
default:
qldap_errno = LDAP_SEARCH;
+ break;
}
That should be pretty self explaining.
--
:wq Claudio
