[Mimedefang] MIME::Parser: can't open tmpfile: Invalid argument

Andrew Pollock andrew-mimedefang at andrew.net.au
Tue Jun 29 03:45:14 EDT 2004


Hi,

I'm rebuilding my primary MX, and I've been trialling MIMEDefang on my
secondary MX. So I duplicated the bulk of the config from my secondary MX to
my (yet to be commissioned) new primary MX.

I get the following:

mimedefang-multiplexor: Starting slave 0 (pid 3075) (1 running): About to perform scan
mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 stderr: MIME::Parser: can't open tmpfile: Invalid argument
mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 0 died prematurely -- check your filter rules
mimedefang[1871]: Error from multiplexor: ERR No response from slave
sm-mta[3062]: i5T7K1sb003062: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later

Google has shown a couple of previous instances on this list, but my setup
doesn't seem to be the same as these previous problems.

I can't work out how to crank out some more debugging, which is what I
ideally want to do.

I'm running MIMEDefang 2.41 and Sendmail 8.12.11 (on both the secondary MX,
which works, and the new primary MX, which exhibits the above).

mimedefang.pl -test is happy
mimedefang.pl -structure doesn't complain
mimedefang.pl -prettyprint spits back an email message if I give it one

So I don't feel that there is anything wrong with my mimedefang-filter (as
it's the same as the one that works on my secondary MX). A big difference
was a 2.6 kernel, as the primary is running 2.6.6 and the secondary 2.4.26,
so I booted into a 2.4.26 kernel on the primary MX and the problem
persisted, so it's not some bizarre tempfile problem.

I guess the next step is an uber strace...

I'd appreciate any suggestions.

regards

Andrew



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