[Mimedefang] 4.7.1 sendmail error

[alan premselaar]

Greg Schlut wrote:
> 
> Still bringing back that error.  Spamassassin was not scanning the files 
> and I did increase the delay.  Any other ideas?  I may try upgrading 
> mimedefang this weekend, and see if that solves it, but it really does 
> look like a timeout issue.
> 
> Thanks for the help.
> 
> --Greg


Greg,

  are you using embedded Perl?  do you still get the error if you run 
without embedded Perl?

I've seen situations where while running in embedded Perl mode, the 
filter would time out trying to scan with SA, but in non-embedded Perl 
mode it would either work or fail with an error message. (it's been 
awhile, i don't remember the specifics off the top of my head)

I've also experienced odd time outs when I experienced hard disk 
problems on my MySQL server in which the disk would go into an endless 
loop while doing a seek and not time out or return an error. This 
wreaked all sorts of havoc on my mail server.

anyways, just some things to try in order to narrow down the cause of 
the problem.

hope this helps.

alan