[Mimedefang] multiplexor error - slave died

Yeager dyeager at teleport.com
Tue Feb 5 11:12:19 EST 2002


> I used to get quite a lot of these too. As the rest of the error message
> says, must be when Mime::Tools figures there's an empty mime part. I
> "fixed" it by adding the following code at the start of sub filter in
> mimedefang-filter (action_quarantine is only called from there).
>
> sub filter {
>
>      my($entity, $fname, $ext, $type) = @_;
>      my($body) = $entity->bodyhandle;
>      :
>      if (!defined($body)) {
>         return action_drop_with_warning("Dropping empty attachment
'$fname'.");
>         }
>

> Like you, this was only happening rarely - the repeated syslog errors were
> mostly retries.
>


Thanks, that fixed it. Like you, my problems were only with mail coming
in from hotmail accounts. I wonder what the problem is with hotmail
sending messages with empty attachments????




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