[Mimedefang] "No free slaves" vs. "Queueing request"

[Andrzej Marecki]

This is something I always wanted to know (but was afraid to ask ;-).

Why are there *much more* messages of this kind:

mfconnect: No free slaves

... than messages like this:

All slaves are busy: Queueing request (xx queued)

... in my syslog?

A naive expectation is that every instance of "No free slaves" should be 
followed by "Queueing request" but it isn't.

Nb. these two messages are produced by different daemons: mimedefang and
mimedefang-multiplexor respectively. Does this mean the two daemons do not
co-operate properly in my box? Or maybe there is something wrong with my 
MD/sendmail configuration...

Besides, in my init file for mimedefang I have: MX_QUEUE_SIZE=10. Hardly
ever this threshold is reached in my case. So the discrepancy I'm talking
about does not result from notorious exceeding the allowable number of
queued requests.

A.M.
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