[Mimedefang] My MD install went wacko
Justin Shore
listuser at numbnuts.net
Sun Jun 8 23:07:01 EDT 2003
On 8 Jun 2003, Bill Randle wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 16:15, Justin Shore wrote:
> > Jun 8 17:20:03 bubba sm-mta[20150]: h58MII3E020150:
> > milter_read(mimedefang): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
> > Jun 8 17:20:03 bubba sm-mta[20150]: h58MII3E020150: Milter (mimedefang):
> > to error state
> > Jun 8 17:20:03 bubba sm-mta[20150]: h58MII3E020150: Milter: data,
> > reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
> >
> > and started temp failing the message (which it did 5 more times). This is
> > weird.
> >
> > I'm not literally restarting Sendmail and MIMEDefang from cron every 5
> > minutes. Any ideas?
>
> Justin,
>
> This sounds suspiciously like the problems I was having (see the thread
> "[Mimedefang] mimedefang lockup - help needed" and related followups
> [one of which was a reply from you :-)]. In my case the mimedefang
> processes were dieing for unknown reasons.
I've probably slept since then. I can barely remember this morning. :)
> When the system is hosed and you do a "ps -Alw -y -H | grep mime", what
> does it look like (compared to when the system is normal)?
I'll remove my restarting cronjob and wait for it to fail again. I return
with the results when it fails next.
> In my case, I never did figure out what the underlying cause was.
> After upgrading to MIMEDefang-2.34-BETA-5 (and previously to kernel
> 2.4.19) fixed it.
>
> I know you said you're already using 2.34-BETA-5, but it would be
> interesting to know if your mimedefang processes are dieing off
> and not restarting like it was for me. It might help David or
> someone else track down the problem.
Interesting. I can't for the life of me think of anything I did new
before I left last Monday. I'd had beta 4 installed since the 27th. The
only thing new I can recall doing near that time was setting up my ISPs
systemwide procmailrc to forward a copy of >= 10 scoring spam to my
machine. That was the night before it went plum loco. My upgrade to beta
5 today didn't seem to help. Weird. That's just nuts.
I'll get back to you with the results.
By the way, did you get a really weird second message on your end? I
received a duplicate message (at least body) from you, or so it appeared.
The difference was 4 or so extra mail hops in the dupe. Here are the
headers:
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Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] My MD install went wacko
From: Bill Randle <billr at neocat.org>
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That's weird. It would appear that tcratz at exchange.jcis.net thought I
needed an extra copy of the message. Since the message was resent with
all the original list headers intact (namely Sender), my procmail sorting
put in my mimedefang mbox. I suppose it could be one screwed up vacation
program. Weird. Is there a full moon tonight?
Justin
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