[Mimedefang] Large attachment timeouts

Stefano McGhee SMcGhee at ARCweb.com
Fri Jul 19 13:47:01 EDT 2002


Hello All,
	I've been pouring over the list archives and search results.  I
seem to have a common problem:  I have large attachments that seem to keep
causing MIMEDefang (MD) to crash.  I've lowered SpamAssassin to 256kb to
100Kb.  I've increased timeouts in MD and Sendmail (8.12.4) to 25 minutes.
Still, messages cause a filter timeout.  The end of the line for a typical
message looks like this (below).  The part that I don't like, is that even
though I DON'T have F=T in my sendmail.mc/cf file.  Sendmail 451's the
message.  I'd really rather them message pass through.  This particular
message was 2 MB or so.  The messages have been bigger or smaller.  I am
rumnning Linux RH 7.2 on a P450Mhz with 256MB RAM.  Any ideas?


Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica mimedefang-multiplexor: Killing slave 4 (pid
14448):
 Busy timeout
Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica mimedefang[14481]: Error from multiplexor:
 ERR Filter timed out - check filter rules or system load
Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 4 (pid
14448)
 exited due to SIGTERM as expected.
Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica sendmail[14472]: g6JH2vTX014472: Milter
read(mimedefang$
 timeout before data read
Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica sendmail[14472]: g6JH2vTX014472: Milter
(mimedefang):
 to error state
Jul 19 13:29:02 galactica mimedefang[14481]: Filter failed.
  Message is in /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3D384642-0

Stefano S. McGhee
IS and Infrastructure Group Manager
ARC Advisory Group
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