[Mimedefang] Timeout woes

[David F. Skoll]

On Fri, 10 May 2002 15:11:07 -0500 Ben Kadish
<Ben.Kadish at happcontrols.com> wrote:

> I just upgraded to 2.9 from 2.1, and whenever I tried sending attachments 
> larger than about 1MB, I got some funny entries in the log and a "Please 
> try again later" timeout from sendmail:

> May 10 14:43:19 mail mimedefang[16638]: Error from multiplexor:
> May 10 14:43:19 mail sendmail[17389]: g4AJh6Yt017389: 
> milter_read(mimedefang): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
> May 10 14:43:19 mail sendmail[17389]: g4AJh6Yt017389: Milter (mimedefang): 
> to error state

> May 10 14:43:34 mail sendmail[17409]: g4AJhYYs017409: Milter (mimedefang): 
> error connecting to filter: Connection refused by /var/run/mimedefang.sock

This last error message is very bad; it seems to indicate that the mimedefang
program has died!  Are you getting any core files?  What OS/Platform is
this on?  Could you try to get a core file? :-)

Regards,

David.