[Mimedefang] strange eror syslogs MD-2.22/SA-2.43

[Martin J. Dellwo]

I set up a new mailserver using RedHat 8.0, sendmail 8.12.5, 
mimedefang-2.22, and SpamAssassin-2.43, and other components as follows:
Digest-SHA1-2.01
IO-Stringy-2.108
MailTools-1.15
MIME-Base64-2.12
MIME-tools-5.411a-RP-Patched-02

All compiled fine and seems to be running without a problem, except that 
this series of errors appears in the syslogs a fair bit, usually 
repeated many times for the same timestamp.  The start mentions perl 
module MIME/Parser/Reader.pm and the end mentions 
Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm

Oct 18 00:07:34 spambam sendmail[18734]: g9I47VoM018734: 
milter=mimedefang, action=body, continue
Oct 18 00:07:34 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in transliteration (tr///) at 
/usr/local/bin/mimedefang.pl line 3386, <IN> line 50.
Oct 18 00:07:34 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: Wide 
character in print at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME/Parser/Reader.pm line 244, <FILE> 
line 51.
Oct 18 00:07:34 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 38) line 88.

[repeated with for line #s 98,98,108,118,118,158,168,198,218,238,248]
[at this point the errors run on into each other, with syslog entries 
that  don't follow specific error message boundaries: ]

[...]Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with 
no preceding start byte) in pa
Oct 18 00:07:35 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: ttern 
match (m//) at (eval 38) line 248. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match 
(m//) at (eval 38) line 248. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match 
(m//) at (eval 38) line 248. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in pattern match 
(m//) at (eval 38) line 248. Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected 
continuation byte

[..more repetitions about line 248...]

Oct 18 00:07:35 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: , with 
no preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 38) line 248. 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 38) line 248. 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in pattern match (m//) at (eval 38) line 248. 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/S
Oct 18 00:07:35 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: 
pamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1706. Malformed UTF-8 character 
(unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start byte) in 
substitution iterator at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1706. 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byte) in substitution iterator at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1706. 
Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no 
preceding start byt

[..more repetitions about line 1706...]

Oct 18 00:07:35 spambam mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: 
/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1786. Malformed UTF-8 
character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa9, with no preceding start 
byte) in transliteration (tr///) at 
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm line 1787.
Oct 18 00:07:36 spambam sendmail[18734]: g9I47VoM018734: Milter add: 
header: X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.22 (www . roaringpenguin . com / 
mimedefang)

Any idea what this all means? ;)
-- 
Martin J. Dellwo   (610) 458-5264 x6512   dellwo at 3dp.com
Systems Administrator, 3-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
http://www.3dp.com/