[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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