[Mimedefang] Odd nonset variable issue

[Chris Masters]

Just to clarify; the variables were set as specified
below rather than with the envelop sender/recipient
and the sendmail allocated qid.

This happened with:

mimedefang-2.43 
sendmail-8.13.0

Thanks, Chris



--- Chris Masters <rotis23 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> We had an occurrence recently of a
> mimedefang-multiplexor slave not having the
> following
> variables set (at least):
> 
>  $QueueID = 'NOQUEUE'
>  $Sender = ''
>  $Recipient[0] = ''
> 
> $MessageID was set OK.
> 
> Now, the mail was accepted by sendmail OK, the
> sendmail log line had a qid and other mails (that
> were
> split from the original single by a sendmail server
> upstream) were processed OK. This meant that
> [because
> of the design of our filter] the domain of the
> recipient could not be validated and, as a result,
> virus scanning was not performed on the mail.
> 
> Under what known conditions could this occur? I'm
> guessing could be a problem with IPC between
>
sendmail->mimdefang(milter)->mimdefang-multiplexor(slave).
> 
> We're just about to start upgrading from
> mimedefang-2.43 to the latest.
> 
> I can provide detailed logs offline if required.
> This
> has happened more than once.
> 
> Any ideas? Thanks for your help.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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