[Mimedefang] Work directory names

[Joseph Brennan]

I'm amazed how fast David Skoll responds.  I really appreciate it-
thank you.


>> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-3E8312A7-0: File exists
>
> You should never see anything ending in -0 complaining, because
> mimedefang.c tries up to MAXTRIES times to make a directory, and MAXTRIES
> is 8192. If you are seeing this, it's because your system is not returning
> EEXIST or EBADF when the mkdir() fails.

Solaris 2.8.  I'm passing this to our systems folks.  Interesting.


> Well, you could try MIMEDefang 2.32-BETA-1, which uses the Sendmail
> queue identifier in the temporary directory name.  Because of the way
> these identifiers are generated, this is practically guaranteed to
> succeed.
>
> If you don't want to upgrade, see if supplying the "-M" option
> to mimedefang fixes it.  This puts a mutex lock around the whole
> directory-creation loop.

Incredibly I was just saying to one of our staff, why not use
sendmail 8.12's nifty unique identifiers.  OK!!


Joseph Brennan          Columbia University in the City of New York
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