[Mimedefang] Errors and CPU Utilization

[John Shearer]

I'm running RedHat 8, Sendmail 8.12.6, and MimeDefang 2.26 w/ SpamAssassin
and McAfee VirusScan.  I came in this morning to find heavy disk activity
and high CPU utilzation on the MimeDefang processes and mail wasn't
moving.  It appeared to be choking on one or two specific messages.  The
maillog was running feverishly.  Here is an excerpt:

Dec  2 08:29:29 opus mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Wide
character in print at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm
line 244, <FILE> line 160.
Dec  2 08:29:29 opus mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Wide
character in print at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm
line 244, <FILE> line 173.
Dec  2 08:29:29 opus mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Wide
character in print at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm
line 244, <FILE> line 174. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
187. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
200. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
201. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm lin
Dec  2 08:29:29 opus mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: e 244, <FILE>
line 213. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
214. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
225. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
226. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
237. Wide character in print at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/M
Dec  2 08:29:29 opus mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr:
IME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line 238. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
252. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
253. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
262. Wide character in print at
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> line
263. Wide character in print at /usr/lib

I know someone will say that this is a SpamAssassin problem and not
MimeDefang, but I was hoping that:  1) Someone may recognize the problem
and have a solution; or 2) Someone may know how to tell MimeDefang to
discard and move on in this situation - I am sure the message it is
choking on is not one I want...

John