[Mimedefang] timeout before data read?

Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com Matthew.van.Eerde at hbinc.com
Wed Nov 17 16:24:20 EST 2004


Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:
> Rich West wrote:
> > Now, if I bring down both mimedefang and sendmail and bring 
> > it back up 
> > again, I can get some mail to come through, but very little 
> > before it 
> > starts spitting out these errors again.
> ...
> Oh, BTW, multiplexor timeout is controlled in 
> /etc/sysconfig/mimedefang 
> (well, at least on RedHat type systems):
> 
> MX_BUSY=1740  # (29 minutes, we give up before sendmail does)
> 
> sendmail timeouts are defined in sendmail.mc:
> 
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER(`mimedefang', 
> `S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, 
> T=S:30m;R:30m;E:30m')

Also consider adding a line like this to your sendmail.mc:
define(`confMAX_MESSAGE_SIZE', `52428800')dnl

The number is in bytes: I have it set to 50 MB
50MB * 1024 KB/MB * 1024 B/KB = 52428800 B

Matthew.van.Eerde (at) hbinc.com                 805.964.4554 x902
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