[Mimedefang] Why does my mimedefang temp fail?

[Albert E. Whale, CISSP]

Rachael,

I have a similar problem on a Slowlaris box.  Where you able to 
determine the source of this problem?

Rachael Stewart wrote:

>I have just installed mimedefang-2.30 and spamassassin-2.44 on my
>test/secondary email server. My server is RH 7.2 with sendmail 8.12.5. I am
>using the sample mimedefang-filter. Shortly after I start mimedefang, I
>start getting the following messages in my maillog:
>
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25125]: h1LKRJ8u025125: Milter (mimedefang):
>init failed to open
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25125]: h1LKRJ8u025125: Milter (mimedefang):
>to error state
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25125]: h1LKRJ8u025125: Milter:
>initialization failed, temp failing commands
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25126]: h1LKRJ8u025126: Milter (mimedefang):
>timeout before data read
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25126]: h1LKRJ8u025126: Milter (mimedefang):
>to error state
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25126]: h1LKRJ8u025126: Milter (mimedefang):
>init failed to open
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25126]: h1LKRJ8u025126: Milter (mimedefang):
>to error state
>Feb 21 14:28:19 raven sendmail[25126]: h1LKRJ8u025126: Milter:
>initialization failed, temp failing commands
>
>Can anyone tell me why this is happening? 
>
>Rachael Stewart
>Network Specialist II
>Texas State Library and Archives
>Ph: 512 463 5454
>Fax: 512 463 3637
>Email: rstewart at tsl.state.tx.us  
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