Good afternoon

I have been using Dovecot with great success for several months now with one problem:

I have received several messages (3 to date out of a much larger number) which cause Dovecot LMTP to drop the connection with sendmail after only receiving the first part of the message.

Dovecot saves the first part to INBOX, and then drops the link with sendmail as it sees the rest of the data from sendmail as new (and invalid) commands

Sendmail sees the delivery as unsuccessful and requeues the message, so the cycle continues until i kill the queue

These messages are all Multipart MIME

I have attached an extract from the log which shows the above sequence

Finally, I have kept one such message from the sendmail queue (df and qf) should this be useful, but prefer not to post here as not sanitised

Any help in correcting my configuration would be appreciated.

Thanks

Steve

MAIL LOG extract

Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20774): Connect from local Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20764]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=OK, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20775): Connect from local Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: STARTTLS=client, relay=localhost, version=TLSv1.3, verify=OK, cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384, bits=256/256 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(*********)<20775><8EieKDqu0F8nUQAA0J78UA>: msgid=<39113a86-fdbb-4cea-b1c3-d225dff93328@info.ameli.fr <mailto:39113a86-fdbb-4cea-b1c3-d225dff93328@info.ameli.fr>>: saved mail to INBOX Dec 9 12:00:10 phone dovecot[179]: lmtp(20775): Disconnect from local: Too many invalid commands. (state=READY) Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: STARTTLS: write error=syscall error (-1), errno=32, get_error=error:00000000:lib(0):func(0):reason(0), retry=1, ssl_err=5 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to localhost: Broken pipe Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 0: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 1: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 2: fl=0x1, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=301, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 3: fl=0x4002, mode=100600: dev=1/2, ino=26089780, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=2041 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 4: fl=0x0, mode=20666: CHR: dev=30/1306024, ino=575, nlink=1, u/gid=0/0, size=0 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 5: fl=0x2, mode=140666: SOCK localhost->[[UNIX: /var/run/mDNSResponder]] Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 6: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25887976, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 7: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25887976, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 8: fl=0x0, mode=100600: dev=1/2, ino=26088246, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=58024 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 9: fl=0x6, mode=140444: SOCK localhost->(Invalid argument) Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 10: fl=0x6, mode=140444: SOCK localhost->(Invalid argument) Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 11: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25768590, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: 12: fl=0x0, mode=100640: dev=1/2, ino=25768590, nlink=1, u/gid=0/23, size=12288 Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: MCI@0x0: NULL Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: MCI@0x7fae2c814818: flags=26404c<CACHED,ESMTP,8BITMIME,INMIME,ENHSTAT,PIPELINED,TLSACT>, errno=32, herrno=0, exitstat=75, state=8, pid=0, maxsize=0, phase=client DATA 354, mailer=dovecot, status=4.4.2, rstatus=(null), host=localhost, lastuse=Wed Dec 9 12:00:10 2020\n Dec 9 12:00:10 phone sm-mta-rx[20763]: 0B89mOON016803: to=<s****************>, delay=1+01:11:31, xdelay=00:00:00, mailer=dovecot, pri=4787366, relay=localhost, dsn=4.4.2, reply=75, stat=Deferred

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DOVECOT Mailer specification

##################*****################## Mdovecot, P=[IPC], F=zDFMPhnul59, S=EnvFromSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, R=EnvToSMTP/HdrFromSMTP, T=DNS/RFC822/X-Unix, A=FILE /var/run/dovecot/lmtp

dovecot -n —————

2.3.11.3 (502c39af9): /usr/local/etc/dovecot/dovecot.conf

Pigeonhole version 0.5.11 (d71e0372)

doveconf: Warning: service auth { client_limit=100 } is lower than required under max. load (300) doveconf: Warning: service anvil { client_limit=100 } is lower than required under max. load (203)

OS: Darwin 15.6.0 x86_64

Hostname: ***************

doveconf: Error: t_readlink(/var/run/dovecot//dovecot.conf) failed: readlink() failed: Permission denied auth_mechanisms = cram-md5 auth_username_format = %Ln base_dir = /var/run/dovecot/ default_client_limit = 100 default_internal_group = _dovecot default_internal_user = _dovecot default_login_user = _dovenull hostname =***************** lda_mailbox_autocreate = yes mail_gid = 530 mail_home = /var/mail/%d/%n mail_location = sdbox:~/dbox mail_uid = 530 managesieve_notify_capability = mailto managesieve_sieve_capability = fileinto reject envelope encoded-character vacation subaddress comparator-i;ascii-numeric relational regex imap4flags copy include variables body enotify environment mailbox date index ihave duplicate mime foreverypart extracttext namespace inbox { inbox = yes location = mailbox Drafts { special_use = \Drafts } mailbox Junk { special_use = \Junk } mailbox Sent { special_use = \Sent } mailbox "Sent Messages" { special_use = \Sent } mailbox Trash { special_use = \Trash } prefix = } passdb { args = scheme=SSHA256 username_format=%u /usr/local/etc/dovecot/users driver = passwd-file } plugin { sieve = file:~/sieve;active=~/.dovecot.sieve } postmaster_address = postmaster protocols = imap lmtp service auth { unix_listener auth-userdb { group = mailusers mode = 0777 user = _dovecot }