[Mimedefang] Getting "Error from multiplexor: ERR No response from slave"

[Cormack, Ken]

Kelson,

You've solved the problem...

> As I understand it, setting the score of a SpamAssassin rule to 0 disables

> the rule.  For testing, small values like 0.01 are recommended.

Excellent point.  I've raised the value to 0.01 for my tests.

> If you haven't already, you should run spamassassin -D --lint and 
> mimedefang.pl -test to make sure there are no syntax errors lying in wait.

Running "spamassasin -D --lint" caught a few occurrences of special
characters in the stings, that seemed to be tripping up the SA engine's
regex parser.  Until I get those characters properly escaped, I removed
those with "grep -v" and re-ran the "-D --lint" with those entries removed.
The test results were clean.

"top" shows the size of my multiplexor threads has grown from approx 20M
each, to now about 75MB each.  I'm running it with embedded perl mode, with
the lion's share of that footprint in shared memory, so it's not as bad as
it sounds.  :)

Consequently, with the rules now free of regex problems, processing appears
to be doing fine, and I am no longer seeing the timeout errors I was getting
before.  Thanks for the suggestion.

KEN CORMACK, RHCE
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