[rt-devel] Long attachments timeout

[Stanislav Sinyagin]

--- Jesse Vincent <jesse at bestpractical.com> wrote:
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ok, sorry for that.

> > After the mail body is passed to Apache, the mail handler takes few minutes 
> > to process the long attachment. During this post-processing, HTTP POST 
> > operation is not yet finished, and Apache returns error 500 after 300 seconds 
> > (the default Timeout value). 
> 
> Minutes? That surprises me. What database? That sounds like you have
> something badly mistuned.

I didn't have time to investigate in depth, but here's what I've got:

"cat longmessage.mime | rt-mailgate" takes approx. 60 seconds for 2.5 Mb message. 
But when I send it via MTA, it never leaves the mailqueue, with the deferred message 
as described before. I'll try to get more output in a more relaxed time. 

Probably this is partly apache/mod_perl bug. 

 > > I think the mail handler should finalize the HTTP session before starting 
> > to process the message body.
> 
> You mean that the server should tell the client "Ok, I've recorded the
> message, you're done" before it has done so? That's a very, very bad
> idea. That could easily result in lost messages.

ok, wrong idea. But how can I track it and get more clue on what's going on
during the mail delivery?

Stan