[Mimedefang] [Help] ERR Filter timed out

Rainer Koschnick arkay at gmx.net
Fri Jan 24 15:49:01 EST 2003


Hello Michael,

Friday, January 24, 2003, 8:46:13 PM, you wrote:

MCH> This just started happening last night after many weeks of use with no
MCH> errors. I did some searching on the web, and found some hits relating to the
MCH> permissions of: /var/spool/MIMEDefang -- I double-checked the permissions
MCH> which seem fine. I'll paste them below just in case.

MCH> I haven't made any changes to /etc/mail/mimedang-filter.

MCH> Here are the permissions of /var/spool/MIMEDefang

MCH>     drwx------  2201 defang   defang      81920 Jan 24 11:35 MIMEDefang/

MCH> Here's the error I'm experiencing:

MCH> Jan 24 11:35:28 r0r0 mimedefang[9664]: Error from multiplexor: ERR Filter
MCH> timed out - check filter rules or system load
MCH> Jan 24 11:35:28 r0r0 sendmail[9663]: h0OJYwJH009663: Milter: data,
MCH> reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
MCH> Jan 24 11:35:28 r0r0 sendmail[9663]: h0OJYwJH009663:
MCH> to=<mike at r0r0.12inch.com>, delay=00:00:30, pri=30638, stat=Please try again
MCH> later

Those are the same error messages I got when I activated the various
RBL tests.  After I turned that feature off again everything went back
to normal (been running flawless for about 1 week by now).

Rainer





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