[Mimedefang] This is fun... (temp failing)

[Ashley M. Kirchner]

"David F. Skoll" wrote:

> This, in my experience, is not due to overload or multiplexor problems.
> Occasionally, it seems, Sendmail's milter interface gets whacked.  I use
> the "Microsoft Solution" and stop Sendmail and MD, and then restart both,
> and it usually clears it. :-(  It can also happen if you somehow start
> another instance of MD without stopping the old one first.

    I'm certain all MD processes were stopped.  However, this morning, I first just restarted MD to see what would happen,
and it started receiving, however it was timing out on everything and the system load skyrocketed.  That's when I shut
everything back down, reset the MIN/MAX values down to 3/8 and restarted.  Everything's been working ever since.  Maybe
the machine just can't handle it, I don't know.  I am in the process of building a second machine with roughly the same
configuration to act as a secondary mx for our domains.  This should alleviate things a bit.


> By the way, it's no good having an excessively-long "busy timeout", because
> that will get you duplicates.  The sender will time out first and resend,
> but the original message will still get sent.  A very long "idle timeout"
> should be OK.

    It's at 60 seconds now.  Should I make it shorter?

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