[Mimedefang] ERR Filter timed out

Charles Mount cmount at csc.com
Fri Feb 7 14:22:01 EST 2003


I am running mimedefang-2.27 with sendmail-switch on Solaris 8 to route
mail through spamd.  This is running on my test server, a SUN 420 with 4
processors and 4GB memory,  which has very little load.   Some mail does
get through correctly but I get a lot of ERR Filter timed out --
stat=Please try again later.  Certain spam messages seem to fail
repeatedly.  Any ideas?
The sendmail config is set  --- "S=:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock,
F=T, T=S:5m;R:5m;E:5m"

Following from /var/log/syslog:

Feb  7 13:29:07 uusnwa0a spamd[7455]: server started on port 783 (running
version 2.43)
Feb  7 13:29:13 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 268819 mail.info]
started; minSlaves=2, maxSlaves=10, maxRequests=200, maxIdleTime=300,
busyTimeout=30, clientTimeout=10
Feb  7 13:29:13 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 778059 mail.info]
Starting slave 0 (pid 7490) (1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves
(2)
Feb  7 13:29:13 uusnwa0a mimedefang[7491]: [ID 768590 mail.debug] IP
validation header is
X-MIMEDefang-Relay-36068734537366579bb94508c9dc104887047a8c
Feb  7 13:29:13 uusnwa0a sendmail[7493]: [ID 702911 mail.info] starting
daemon (Switch-2.2.4): SMTP+queueing at 00:15:00
Feb  7 13:29:16 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 778059 mail.info]
Starting slave 1 (pid 7604) (2 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves
(2)
Feb  7 13:31:35 uusnwa0a sendmail[8088]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
h17IVYh08088: from=<bounce-2889644-448 at mail11.a83c9d.net>, size=19157,
class=0, nrcpts=1, msgid=<200302042233.h14MXRj20364 at mail3.utc.com>,
proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, relay=uusnwa0l.utc.com [159.82.80.208]
Feb  7 13:32:05 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 396163 mail.info]
Killing slave 0 (pid 7490): Busy timeout
Feb  7 13:32:05 uusnwa0a mimedefang[7491]: [ID 847421 mail.error] Error
from multiplexor: ERR Filter timed out - check filter rules or system load
Feb  7 13:32:05 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 620610 mail.debug]
Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid 7490) exited due to SIGTERM as expected.
Feb  7 13:32:05 uusnwa0a sendmail[8088]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
h17IVYh08088: to=<xyzabc at uusnwa0a.utc.com>, delay=00:00:30, pri=49157,
stat=Please try again later
Feb  7 13:32:08 uusnwa0a mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 778059 mail.info]
Starting slave 0 (pid 8220) (2 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves
(2)






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