[Mimedefang] milter timing out.

[Justin]

On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Edmund wrote:

> I'm having the same problem here.  A co-worker was trying to
> send a big file to another co-worker and the mail server kept
> on throwing a Error 451.   Unfortunately, I don't know how big
> the file is.
> 
> I read on this thread that by resetting MD it should return to normal.
> I did that, and it seems to have worked.  But I'm certain that it'd do
> that again sooner or later.

The problem I used to have on my RH 7.3 box was fixed in the same way.  I 
had a cronjob restart sendmail and MD every 5 minutes just to keep things 
mostly working.  I never did find the cause of that problem.  My current 
problem is with MD going completely brain dead after receiving a message.  
I mean it accepts the message (and any new messages) for processing but it 
will do nothing.  It simply waits for sendmail to time it out and sendmail 
then returns a 451.  I'm going to inquire with the list about this under 
separate cover tomorrow, after I test a few more things.  I've had to 
disable MD in the mean time.  It's very odd.

Justin