[Mimedefang] Slaves Dying Prematurely

[Peter A. Cole]

Hi all,

I know there's been previous threads/answers on this, but I can't seem to find the reason for this at the moment... I'm a bit lost.

Yesterday, my mail server was running perfectly, spam and virii getting removed, sending and receiving mail fine.

This morning, I turned it on and my slave now die prematurely with an smtp error: SMTP error: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later.

This is a sample of the log:

Mar  1 09:02:15 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 1 died prematurely -- check your filter rules
Mar  1 09:02:15 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 1 (pid 990) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Mar  1 09:02:15 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 1 resource usage: req=1, scans=1, user=36.840, sys=1.880, nswap=0, majflt=666, minflt=6722, maxrss=0, bi=0, bo=0
Mar  1 09:02:15 jake mimedefang[883]: Error from multiplexor: ERR No response from slave
Mar  1 09:02:15 jake fetchmail[330]: SMTP error: 451 4.7.1 Please try again later 
Mar  1 09:02:15 jake fetchmail[330]:  not flushed 
Mar  1 09:02:18 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 1 (pid 1190) (2 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (2)
Mar  1 09:02:53 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 died prematurely -- check your filter rules
Mar  1 09:02:53 jake mimedefang-multiplexor: Reap: Idle slave 0 (pid 1106) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)

I recall seeing problems with a perl version, but can't seem to find the posts in relation to this. Or was it just embedded perl?

I'm running Debian Sarge with mimedefang 2.38 and perl 5.8.3.

The only thing I can recall changing is possibly the perl version. I know it got upgraded from 5.8.2 at some stage, I just can't remember if this was yesterday or not.

I also changed some settings in relation to Razor and DNSRBL checks, but I ran /etc/init.d/mimedefang reread after changing these and it was still working then.

If someone could just direct me towards old posts on this subject or logs to check etc. that would be greatly appreciated.

Pete