[Mimedefang] Why does my mimedefang temp fail?

[Rachael Stewart]

Albert,

In my case the problem was with the "$MaxMIMEParts = 50;" setting included
by default in the sample mimedefang-filter with v2.30. My mimedefang started
failing after it had been invoked. I loaded the patched MIMI-tools package,
but it didn't seem to take. I haven't had time to pursue the perl end, but
when I commented out the MaxMIMEParts setting, mimedefang's operation went
back to normal.

HTH,
Rachael

Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 09:51:37 -0500
From: "Albert E. Whale, CISSP" <aewhale at ABS-CompTech.com>
Organization: ABS Computer Technology, Inc.
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Why does my mimedefang temp fail?
Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com

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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