[Mimedefang] MsgID between sendmail and mimedefang issue

Ernst du Plooy eduplooy at gmail.com
Fri Nov 19 02:18:05 EST 2021


I found the issue.  Someone executed a clean on mdefang-* using incrond
when a specific file changes.

Sorry for wasting your time with this, but your assistance is much
appreciated.

On Fri, 19 Nov 2021 at 08:09, Ernst du Plooy <eduplooy at gmail.com> wrote:

> >>Or could you have a cron job or some other thing that's cleaning up
> >>/var/spool/MIMEDefang?
>
> >Not that I am aware of, I checked cron and could not find anything.  To
> verify I'll configure ionotify to monitor the directory
>
> Something is deleting the directory (see the ionotify log lebow).  It's
> not in mimedefang-filter:
> [root at relay spool]# cat /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter |grep -e unlink -e
> rmdir -e 'rm -f' -e 'rm -r'
> [root at relay spool]#
>
> I stopped cron
> [root at relay spool]# service crond stop
> Redirecting to /bin/systemctl stop crond.service
>
> Nov 19 07:03:17 relay2 mimedefang[3446]: 1AJ53DgE003322: Could not open
> /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322/INPUTMSG: No such file or
> directory
> Nov 19 07:03:17 relay2 mimedefang[3446]: 1AJ53DgE003322:
> lstat(/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322) failed: No such file or
> directory
> Nov 19 07:03:17 relay2 mimedefang[3446]: 1AJ53DgE003322: failed to clean
> up /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322: No such file or directory
>
> #ionotify log
> [root at relay2 root]# cat /tmp/log.log |grep 1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:16.133489489]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang CREATE,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:17.251536596]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang OPEN,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:17.252682974]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:17.253830299]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang OPEN,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:17.254962143]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang CLOSE_NOWRITE,CLOSE,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
> [07:03:17.256036660]: /var/spool/MIMEDefang DELETE,ISDIR
> mdefang-1AJ53DgE003322
>
>
>
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