[Pymilter] timeout before data read; init failed to open

[Stuart D. Gathman]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Andrew Azarov wrote:

> Oct 25 21:30:42 mail-1 sendmail[22477]: l9PHUWUm022477: Milter 
> (avlmilter): timeout before data read
> 
> in my logs... what can this be?????

http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/libmilter/docs/installation.html

You are hitting the R: timeout.  You might want to increase it, assuming
your milter isn't in a loop or something.

In the following example, the R: timeout is set to 5 minutes.

INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`pythonfilter', `S=local:/var/run/milter/pythonsock, F=T, T=C:5m;S:20s;R:5m;E:5m')

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