Ok, I am officially an idiot. Even though I had downloaded the latest bigevil.cf file to my system, it was not ftping the new one to my mail server (was putting version 2.12I on the system). Now that I figured out my mistake and have put 2.12J on, the problem seems to be fixed. I am adding all of my filters back one by one to verify that there are no more conflicts.
Thanks for the help. Guess version 2.12I had a problem (or at least the version of it that I downloaded). - Matt -----Original Message----- From: Matt Yahna [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 11:03 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Mimedefang] Problems with Mimedefang & Spamassassin (This message was posted to the Spamassassin list as well, but was told it would be better here) We currently use the following configuration for blocking Spam: Solaris 8 Mimedefang 2.41 SpamAssassin 2.63 Perl 5.8.0 Sendmail 8.12.11 Over the weekend, I noticed several message in the syslog that the milter timed out, and that some messages were taking several hours to finally get through the system. We were still blocking spam, but it was taking a long time. I was getting reports from users that they were not getting messages from clients, and would see in the log that their message was refused because the milter was too busy to accept it. This never used to happen, we would get emails right away even after they went through SA. I have tried adding more mimedefang instances to the multiplexor, but they just get used and get busy. I have 20 running right now, and all are busy. Does anyone have any idea why this just started happening? I thought maybe it was because of some of the new rules that I installed, but even after turning most of them off, I still have the problem! I have the following rules installed (all downloaded recently): 99_FVGT_Tripwire.cf airmax.cf random.current.cf antidrug.cf backhair.cf sa-blacklist.cf bigevil.cf sa-blacklist.current.uri.cf bogus-virus-warnings.cf chickenpox.cf evilnumbers.cf weeds.cf I ran a spamassassin -d --lint and receive no errors. Here are some of the errors in my syslog: Mar 24 09:33:42 spawn mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 316382 mail.info] Killing busy slave 17 (pid 23428): Busy timeout Mar 24 09:33:42 spawn mimedefang[5240]: [ID 847421 mail.error] Error from multiplexor: ERR Filter timed out - system may be overloaded (consider increasing busy timeout)Mar 24 09:33:44 spawn mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 364399 mail.info] Slave status: Stopped=0 Idle=0 Busy=20 Killed=0 Queued=0 Msgs=3193 Activations=3183Mar 24 09:33:44 spawn sm-mta[23419]: [ID 801593 mail.error] i2OGSDCS023419: Milter (mimedefang): timeout before data read Mar 24 09:33:45 spawn sm-mta[23419]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OGSDCS023419: Milter (mimedefang): to error state Mar 24 09:32:10 spawn sm-mta[23532]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OGW3iQ023532: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later One of the things I just noticed was the following log entry (after changing back to 10 max slaves): Mar 24 10:25:42 spawn mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 472408 mail.info] Slave status : Stopped=0 Idle=0 Busy=10 Killed=0 Queued=0 Msgs=3 Activations=10 Why would 10 of them be busy with only 3 messages? Or does that mean that 10 messages have come through to the filter, and it has let 3 pass? Here are more log messages (after turning sendmail logging up). It seems to try to quit the filter, but doesn't actually shut the filter down? I am not sure. I can't seem to find any other indication of a problem other than it complaining that it can't connect to the filter and these types of messages repeating in syslog: Mar 24 10:26:03 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] NOQUEUE: connect from 66-95-174-36.client.dsl.net [66.95.174.36] Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: Milte r (mimedefang): init success to negotiate Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: Milte r: connect to filters Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn mimedefang[28186]: [ID 627436 mail.warning] mfconnect: No free slaves Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: milte r=mimedefang, action=connect, tempfail Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: Milte r (mimedefang): time command (C), 0 Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: Milte r: connect, ending Mar 24 10:26:04 spawn sm-mta[29020]: [ID 801593 mail.info] i2OHQ38X029020: Milte r (mimedefang): quit filter I did notice that I am running perl 5.8.0, and not the latest (5.8.3). So I am currently compiling 5.8.3 to see if it helps. Any help would be greatly appreciated. - Matt _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
