[Mimedefang] milter timing out.

[Lucas Albers]

I saw these entries in my milter timing out, I thought it was caused from
my older version of sendmail 8.12.3-debian.
So I upgraded sendmail to 8.12.11, and the problem still kept occuring.
When restarting mimedefang you need to add a at least a .5 second delay
and 3 seconds works better; on linux to solve milter problems.

Sometimes you need to stop sendmail, stop mimedefang, wait 3 seconds, then
start mimedefang and then start sendmail to resolve milter problems.

I upgraded from clamscan to clamdscan and added in the extra scanning
options:
--mbox --unzip -r

So now I have a working system:
sendmail-8.12.11
Mimedefang 2.38
clamd .65 running as clamdscan.

It is handling the sco virus, and the normal mail load perfectly.

I believe David Skoll mentioned that you should run 8.12.5 as your
miniumum sendmail as it fixes a number of milter bugs in sendmail.

I might go back to 8.12.3(timely security updates for debian) now that I
have found the milter problems were not caused by sendmail.
--Luke



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Luke Computer Science System Administrator
Security Administrator,College of Engineering
Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana