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Subject:Re: [courier-users] courieresmtp - "No such file or directory"
From:Lindsay Haisley (fmou@fmp.com)
Date:Dec 5, 2008 8:18:11 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-users

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 18:35 -0500, Sam Varshavchik wrote:

Lindsay Haisley writes:

I have a courier installation running courier 0.60.0 which delivers _most_ email from the system and for remote clients using it for relaying with no problem. Occasionally, however, something like the following happens:

Dec 5 09:02:07 shakti courieresmtp:
id=000000000021DBA1.000000004939426F.00003979,from=<user@redacted>,addr=<someone@redacted>:
No such file or directory Dec 5 09:02:07 shakti courieresmtp:
id=000000000021DBA1.000000004939426F.00003979,from=<user@redacted>,addr=<someone@recacted>,status:
deferred

This seems to be associated with particular (remote) addresses, since the emails are queued for retry and fail repeatedly. Other (most) addresses have no such problems and the emails are delivered normally. If I telnet to port 25 on the server and send an email manually I don't see a problem in the SMTP dialog (I get a "250 Ok" after the data segment followed by the message ID), but if I check the mail log I see the same "No such file or directory" message. Is this something that's coming from the remote end without a proper error code, or something that's being generated by courier?

The error message is generated by Courier, but it's not clear why. Perhaps looking at any preceding messages for this recipient will be helpful.

I went through a bunch of log entries on messages that failed with this message and compared them with successful deliveries. One thing thread that I've noticed so far is that when I contact the MX servers associated with the failed addresses they all advertise TLS and STARTTLS whereas those that are successful don't do so. Courier may be failing to find one of it's TLS/SSL components. Maybe I can disable client-side TLS for these servers and see if that puts a band-aid on the problem.