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Xmimedefang, S=unix:/Defang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, T=S:10m;R:10m
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It looks like sendmail it issueing a timeout when this timer expires and mimedefang is not finished yet.. This permits a 10 minute scan..
I have some very large attachments so your numbers my vary..
-Keith
Rich West wrote:
Quite suddenly, and consistently, today at around noon, I started seeing the following messages in my maillog, and the load average on the system went through the roof (load average shot up beyond 22!) shortly afterwards.
Nov 17 15:02:51 cranium sm-mta[24072]: iAHK1XJR024072: Milter (mimedefang): timeout before data read
Nov 17 15:02:51 cranium sm-mta[24072]: iAHK1XJR024072: Milter (mimedefang): to error state
Nov 17 15:02:51 cranium sm-mta[24072]: iAHK1XJR024072: Milter: data, reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later
Nov 17 15:02:51 cranium sm-mta[24072]: iAHK1XJR024072: to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, delay=00:01:01, pri=32062, stat=Please try again later
Now, if I bring down both mimedefang and sendmail and bring it back up again, I can get some mail to come through, but very little before it starts spitting out these errors again.
And, it seems, that mimedefang keeps being forced to spawn a new process, leaving the old one around to spin its wheels, and the new process will generate the same error, and then spawn a new process because of the failure, and so on and so on, becoming a very fast and sick cycle. :(
I'm pretty much at a loss as to what could be the cause since neither mimedefang nor sendmail have been rebuilt in quite a while (I am running the latest mimedefang and the latest sendmail, of course). And no changes have been put in to place in the mimedefang-filter either. :(
Right now, I am limping by only by watching the maillog, seeing a failure of a slave, and restarting mimedefang as a whole... Of course, I can't keep that up forever..
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