[Mimedefang] Milter: initialization failed, temp failing commands

Marcelo Martins mmartins at geofocus.com
Mon Mar 27 15:40:02 EST 2006


I have mimedefang 2.56 running on a Redhat ES 3 server with sendmail
8.13.5 compiled. I have checked and checked again, reinstalled
mimedefang, sendmail serveral times and nothing seems to help on this
problem. I have removed the "-E" option as others suggested. I even
setup a cronjob to restart sendmail and mimedefang every 15 minutes as
also suggested. With the cronjob setup I was actually able to have the
server up and running from Fri-Monday mornning. But then, as expected,
once the email load started to increase the problem came back.

My maillog show me the following errors:
I seperated them in blocks, any help would be greatly appreciated I have
been trying to fix the problems for weeks and I'm pulling my hair out.


--------- when the error first appears -----------------
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454: Milter
(mimedefang): init success to negotiate
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454: Milter:
connect to filters
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454:
milter_read(mimedefang): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454: Milter:
connect, ending
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454: Milter:
connect: host=localhost, addr=0, temp failing commands
Mar 27 10:39:29 mailsvr02 sendmail[32454]: k2RGdT3l032454:
root at localhost did not issue MAIL/EXPN/VRFY/ETRN during connection to
stdin
Mar 27 10:39:30 mailsvr02 sendmail[32456]: k2RGdUlI032456: Milter
(mimedefang): open /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock failed:
Connection refused by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock

------after a while I keep getting this over and over --------

Mar 27 10:40:05 mailsvr02 sendmail[32458]: k2RGe1Mr032458: Milter
(mimedefang): error connecting to filter: Connection refused
by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Mar 27 10:40:05 mailsvr02 sendmail[32458]: k2RGe1Mr032458: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
Mar 27 10:40:05 mailsvr02 sendmail[32458]: k2RGe1Mr032458: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands
Mar 27 10:42:08 mailsvr02 sendmail[32462]: k2RGg4MI032462: Milter
(mimedefang): open /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock failed:
Connection refused by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Mar 27 10:42:08 mailsvr02 sendmail[32462]: k2RGg4MI032462: Milter
(mimedefang): error connecting to filter: Connection refused
by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Mar 27 10:42:08 mailsvr02 sendmail[32462]: k2RGg4MI032462: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
Mar 27 10:42:08 mailsvr02 sendmail[32462]: k2RGg4MI032462: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands
Mar 27 10:42:30 mailsvr02 sendmail[32463]: k2RGgUH9032463: Milter
(mimedefang): open /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock failed:
Connection refused by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Mar 27 10:42:30 mailsvr02 sendmail[32463]: k2RGgUH9032463: Milter
(mimedefang): error connecting to filter: Connection refused
by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
Mar 27 10:42:30 mailsvr02 sendmail[32463]: k2RGgUH9032463: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
Mar 27 10:42:30 mailsvr02 sendmail[32463]: k2RGgUH9032463: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands
Mar 27 10:44:59 mailsvr02 sendmail[32464]: k2RGixnh032464: Milter
(mimedefang): open /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock failed:
Connection refused by /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock

--- first time i see this today ----------------

Mar 27 13:19:16 mailsvr02 sendmail[360]: k2RJJFWM000360: Milter
(mimedefang): local socket name /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock
unsafe
Mar 27 13:19:16 mailsvr02 sendmail[360]: k2RJJFWM000360: Milter
(mimedefang): to error state
Mar 27 13:19:16 mailsvr02 sendmail[360]: k2RJJFWM000360: Milter:
initialization failed, temp failing commands




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