[Mimedefang] smfi_chgheader returned MI_FAILURE
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Sat Apr 21 17:08:43 EDT 2007
Mark London wrote:
> Ok, I just bypassed mimedefang in order to get the bad mail delivered to
> me, and the only thing that looks weird about it, is a very very long
> References header line. Could that have caused the problem?
possibly, but....
> /var/log/maillog:Apr 21 12:28:34 psfcsv1 sendmail[1251]: l3LGRYZX001251:
> Milter (mimedefang): timeout before data read
> /var/log/maillog:Apr 21 12:28:34 psfcsv1 sendmail[1251]: l3LGRYZX001251:
> Milter (mimedefang): to error state
That's the real problem; the milter timeout is too short for the message.
You need to increase the "T=..." timeouts in your Sendmail config
file.
> /var/log/maillog:Apr 21 12:28:47 psfcsv1 mimedefang[28925]:
> l3LGRYZX001251: smfi_chgheader returned MI_FAILURE
That's just a symptom of the fact that when MIMEDefang finally
finishes processing the mail, the associated Sendmail process has already
quit. The real cause is the timeout.
Regards,
David.
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