[Mimedefang] Mimedefang 2.16 unable to create directory in spool dir

[Jeffrey Tay]

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Heidi Hornstein wrote:

> >Oct 21 10:25:37 server1 mimedefang[282]: [ID 142508 mail.warning] Could
> >not create mdefang directory in /var/spool/MIMEDefang: File exists
> >
> >I believe this is due to the temporary working directory Mimedefang
> >creates when processing mail.
> >
> >I'm using Mimedefang 2.16, with Solaris 8 on a Sun Ultra 2 with 256MB RAM
> >and 1GB swap. Sendmail is 8.12.5
>
> Switch to Sun's compiler or change to newer version of gcc.  I ran into
> this problem with an older gcc.  When I stepped through mimedefang with a
> debugger, I found it wasn't doing "errno != EDADF" check.  If another
> thread already was using that particular working directory, the program
> wouldn't loop to try a different directory name.

I recall using gcc-3.0.x to do this, but will try recompiling with the
latest gcc and upgrade mimedefang too :)
Thanks for the hints!

Regards
Jeffrey