[Mimedefang] Slave died prematurely -- check your filter rules

Mathew Thomas mathew.thomas at rmit.edu.au
Sun Jan 8 18:42:47 EST 2006


Hi 

Our one of the mail gateways running Solaris 9 with Sendmail 8-13.1 +
Mimedefang 2.44 + SpamAssassin 2.64 started to log the following error
messages all of a sudden:

Jan  5 14:49:39 its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au
mimedefang-multiplexor[1709]: [ID 389462 mail.error] Slave 2 died
prematurely -- check your filter rules
Jan  5 14:49:39 its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au mimedefang[1722]: [ID
847421 mail.error] Error from multiplexor: ERR No response from slave
Jan  5 14:49:39 its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au sendmail[6135]: [ID
801593mail.info]
k053nHxp006135:to=<guntur at otto.bf.rmit.edu.au>,delay=00:00:05,
pri=30804, stat=Please try again later
Jan  5 14:49:39 its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au
mimedefang-multiplexor[1709]: [ID 502711 mail.error] Reap: Idle slave 2
(pid 6106) exited due to signal 11 (SLAVE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY)
Jan  5 14:49:40 its-mu-mail4.its.rmit.edu.au
mimedefang-multiplexor[1709]: [ID 778059 mail.info] Starting slave 2
(pid 6222) (10 running): Bringing slaves up to minSlaves (20)

What would be the problem? There are 1000s of above messages in syslog,
but it is still accepting  and routing  mail.

Thanks
Mathew



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