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

[David F. Skoll]

On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:

>     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.

That is really, really strange.  Your machine is slow, but it certainly has
enough memory to run more than 3 Perl processes.

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

The "busy timeout" corresponds (roughly) to the "DATA Termination"
timeout in Section 4.5.3 of RFC 2821.  The recommended value in
the RFC is 10 minutes.  Give yourself a safety factor of two, and
keep busy-timeout to 5 minutes (300 seconds) or less.

MIMEDefang introduces a delay between the final "." of DATA processing
and the reply code.  It violates the spirit of RFC 1047
(http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1047.txt) but (obviously) I think it's
worth it.

Regards,

David.