[Mimedefang] I still have hair left

[Mitch at 0Bits.COM]

Hi Tim,

Your sendmail is error is quite strange. Look at the delay= line
in yours

> Jul 21 22:45:14 calgw sendmail[5099]: h6M4jDPc005099: to=<timp at crossthread.com>, delay=00:00:01, pri=30425, stat=Please try again later

and what i was getting before i fixed my syslog

 Jul  9 00:20:14 core sm-mta[28247]: h68NID1I028247: to=<mitch at 0bits.com>, delay=00:02:01, pri=140375, stat=Please try again later

In mine, it is clearly timing out after 2 minutes odd, whereas your's
seems to be effectively generating the error instantaneously (1s) like
as you say, it's not finding mimedefang.pl at all to execute..

Are you SURE you've got the multiplexor and the mimedefang.pl installed
correctly in the right path for the multiplexor to spawn it ?

 % strings /usr/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor|grep mimedefang.pl
 /usr/bin/mimedefang.pl

Are you sure your socket is set up correctly and is readable by
the defang user ?

If the answers to all above are yes, then the last thing to do is
use your UNIX tools - in Linux's case "strace" and in FreeBSD probably
the "truss" command to truss sendmail (using the -f flag to follow it's
children) and  see what it is failing on.

Mitch
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [Mimedefang] I still have hair left
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:21:35 -0600
From: Tim Pushor <timp at crossthread.com>
Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com

Hello,

I am still having trouble with my MIMEDefang. I could be wrong, but it
seems that mimedefang.pl is not getting executed for whatever reason.

I have built two systems, both configured similarily. In fact, the only
real difference is one is based on FreeBSD 4.7-RELEASE and one is
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE. I used the same build scripts to install sendmail
and mimedefang (2.33).

On the problem system:

When I run mimedefang with the -k switch, and then run mimedefang.pl
manually everything seems to work. This proves that the milter,
mimedefang is running, and that sendmail is communicating with it.

When I remove the -k switch, all I get in the sendmail log is:

Jul 21 22:45:14 calgw sendmail[5099]: h6M4jDPc005099: to=<timp at crossthread.com>, delay=00:00:01, pri=30425, stat=Please try again later


There is no other evidence.

I have compared this setup to my working setup and can't see any
problems. The mimedefang user has the same username, uid, and gid. The
spool directory and sockets have the same permissions. mimedefang.pl has
the same permissions. It runs fine when I run it by hand.

My next resort is probably to start adding debugging code to mimedefang,
but I am really hoping that someone can maybe assist pointing me in the
right direction.

Thanks,
Tim