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 Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang-multiplexor[1014]: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10206]: Error from multiplexor: error: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee sendmail[10201]: k0E7MB2d010201: Please try again later Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10100]: Error from multiplexor: error: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:18 Raydeus-Dee sendmail[10098]: k0E7Lw2c010098: Please try again later Jan 14 02:22:27 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10243]: mfconnect: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:27 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10246]: mfconnect: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:27 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10247]: mfconnect: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:27 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10248]: mfconnect: No free slaves Jan 14 02:22:27 Raydeus-Dee mimedefang[10249]: mfconnect: No free slaves I stopped and restarted Sendmail/Mimedefang but that did not help. Finally I just rebooted the Redhat box. Interestingly enough, when it came back up the problem was still there but a few minutes later it rresolved. I need to try to determine what might cause this and how to prevent it from happening again. Also - how do I find out how many slaves Mimedefang is configured to have and should I increase that? If so, how? Thanks, Lisa Casey _______________________________________________ NOTE: If there is a disclaimer or other legal boilerplate in the above message, it is NULL AND VOID. You may ignore it. Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.roaringpenguin.com MIMEDefang mailing list MIMEDefang@lists.roaringpenguin.com http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang