[Mimedefang] Error when sending large attachments

Dave Shepherd Dave.Shepherd at Vixel.com
Wed Jun 4 18:59:00 EDT 2003


Howdy group,

I'm having a problem sending files with large attachments. I get this 
timeout error.
Running Solaris 5.8 on sun4u sparc

Help please -
Dave S.

I've tried adding the -b 90 option to the mimedefang startup scripts:


USER=smmsp
RSIZE=50000
MSIZE=50000
PATH=$PATH:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin
MAX_SLAVES=18
MIN_SLAVES=1
BUSY_TIMEOUT=90
IDLE_TIMEOUT=300

FILTER_PATH=/etc/mail/mimedefang-filter

#uncomment the following line to enable sender check
SENDER_CHECK=-s

MIMEDEFANG=/usr/local/bin/mimedefang
MULTIPLEX=/usr/local/bin/mimedefang-multiplexor

[ -x $MIMEDEFANG ] || exit 1
[ -x $MULTIPLEX ] || exit 1

case "$1" in
'start')
        rm -f /var/mimedefang/mimedefang.sock
        rm -f /var/mimedefang/mdefang-mx.sock

        echo "Starting mimedefang-multiplexor: "
        if [ -x $MULTIPLEX ]
        then
                $MULTIPLEX \
                   -l \
                   -U $USER \
                   -m $MIN_SLAVES \
                   -R $RSIZE \
                   -M $MSIZE \
                   -x $MAX_SLAVES \
                   -b $BUSY_TIMEOUT \
                   -i $IDLE_TIMEOUT \
                   -s /var/mimedefang/mdefang-mx.sock \
                   -p /var/mimedefang/mdefang-mx.pid
                RETVAL=$?
                echo ""
                [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && exit 1
        fi
        echo "Starting mimedefang ..."
        if [ -x $MIMEDEFANG ]
        then
                $MIMEDEFANG -m /var/mimedefang/mdefang-mx.sock \
                   -U $USER \
                   -F $FILTER_PATH \
                   -p /var/mimedefang/mimedefang.sock $SENDER_CHECK \
                   -s \
                   -P /var/mimedefang/mimedefang.pid
                RETVAL=$?
                echo ""
                [ $RETVAL -ne 0 ] && exit 1
        fi

        ;;




syslog error message -

Jun  4 15:47:18 sparrow sendmail[561]: [ID 702911 mail.info] 
STARTTLS=server, relay=martin [172.16.16.18], version=TLSv1/SSLv3, 
verify=NO, cipher=RC4-MD5, bits=128/128
Jun  4 15:47:18 sparrow sendmail[561]: [ID 702911 mail.info] 
AUTH=server, relay=martin [172.16.16.18], authid=dshepherd, mech=PLAIN, 
bits=0
Jun  4 15:47:40 sparrow sendmail[561]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
h54MlFo4000561: from=<Dave.Shepherd at Vixel.com>, size=9321888, class=0, 
nrcpts=1, msgid=<3EDE76A2.5020503 at Vixel.com>, proto=ESMTP, daemon=MTA, 
relay=martin [172.16.16.18]
Jun  4 15:49:11 sparrow mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 316382 mail.info] 
Killing busy slave 0 (pid 527): Busy timeout
Jun  4 15:49:11 sparrow mimedefang[530]: [ID 847421 mail.error] Error 
from multiplexor: ERR Filter timed out - check filter rules or system load
Jun  4 15:49:11 sparrow sendmail[561]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
h54MlFo4000561: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
Jun  4 15:49:11 sparrow sendmail[561]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
h54MlFo4000561: to=<dave at vixel.com>, delay=00:01:53, pri=30526, 
stat=Please try again later
Jun  4 15:49:11 sparrow mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 390299 mail.debug] 
Reap: Killed slave 0 (pid 527) exited due to SIGTERM/SIGKILL as expected.
Jun  4 15:49:14 sparrow mimedefang-multiplexor: [ID 778059 mail.info] 
Starting slave 0 (pid 565) (1 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (1)







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