[Mimedefang] Mimedefang errors: What might be the cause?

[Rob MacGregor]

On 14/01/06, Lisa Casey <lisa at jellico.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running Mimedefang/Spamassassin on a Redhat server with Sendmail. This
> has all been running fine for a couple of years now. Suddenly, this morning
> my customers were unable to send  e-mail. Looking at /var/log/maillog, I saw
> lots of entries such as this:
>
> Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor[1014]: No free slaves
<---SNIP signs of a busy mail server--->

> I need to try to determine what might cause this and how to prevent it from
> happening again.

Likely you had more incoming connections than configured slaves.

> Also - how do I find out how many slaves Mimedefang is configured to have
> and should I increase that? If so, how?

Check your startup script.

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