[Dovecot] lmtp proxy timeout while waiting for reply to DATA reply

Timo Sirainen
Tue, 01 May 2012 00:46:52 -0000

On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 13:00 +0200, Daniel Parthey wrote:

> we are experiencing similar sporadic data timeout issues with dovecot
2.0.20
> as in http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-June/059807.html
> at least once a week. Some mails get temporarily deferred in the
> postfix queue since dovecot director lmtp refuses them and the
> mails are delivered at a later time.
..
> Shall I apply the following patches from
> http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/2011-June/059987.html
> or are they already included with version 2.0.20?

Those patches are already in v2.0.20. But what isn't in v2.0 is the
larger rewrite of the LMTP proxying code in v2.1, which I hope fixes
also this timeout problem.