[Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.28-BETA-1 is available

Mark Waterhouse mwaterho at sgi.com
Wed Dec 4 14:40:00 EST 2002


Hi David

I have seen mention of the problems only occuring on 'busy mail servers'

Do you have a way of simulating a busy mail server.  I've just installed
2.27 (will do the next upgrade tomorrow) and am trying to find a way to
stress test the mailserver.  Any ideas, scripts etc?

Thanks
Mark
----- Original Message -----
From: "David F. Skoll" <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 6:55 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.28-BETA-1 is available


> Hi,
>
> Murphy's law... MIMEDefang 2.28-BETA-1 is at
> http://www.roaringpenguin.com/mimedefang/#download
>
> The new scheduling policy in version 2.27 very occasionally chooses a
> "killed" slave to process a request, resulting in this message in the
> mail log:
>
> mimedefang-multiplexor: handleSlaveReceivedCommand(3): Timeout or error:
Flag = 1
>
> and the e-mail will be tempfailed.  You will only see this on very
> busy mail servers, and only occasionally, so it's not a big deal.
> Nevertheless, 2.28-BETA-1 fixes it.
>
> Regards,
>
> David.
>
> Changelog from 2.27:
>
> 2002-12-04  David F. Skoll  <dfs at roaringpenguin.com>
>
> * mimedefang-multiplexor.c (findFreeSlave): Do not return
> a killed-but-not-yet-reaped slave.
>
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