I have been using MIMEDefang successfully for several years now. After I
installed it on a new server (FreeBSD 6.0), a rather nasty problem has
come to my attention...
After copying sendmail and mimedefang configurations files from the old
server along with user accounts, mail and so forth, everything looked
great. Maybe for a couple of hours or so. Then I spotted the following
error in /var/log/messages:
May 2 18:06:02 amanda kernel: pid 19878 (mimedefang-multiple), uid 26:
exited on signal 11
And here is an excerpt from /var/log/maillog:
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: NOQUEUE: connect from
cm56-138-42.liwest.at [86.56.138.42]
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: AUTH: available mech=NTLM LOGIN
ANONYMOUS PLAIN GSSAPI OTP DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5, allowed mech=GSSAPI
DIGEST-MD5 CRAM-MD5 LOGIN
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: Milter
(mimedefang): init success to negotiate
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: Milter (greylist):
init success to negotiate
May 2 18:06:13 amanda mimedefang[19893]: MXCommand: connect: Connection
refused: Is multiplexor running?
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: Milter: connect to
filters
May 2 18:06:13 amanda mimedefang[19893]: mfconnect: Error communicating
with multiplexor
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: milter=mimedefang,
action=connect, tempfail
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: Milter: connect, ending
May 2 18:06:13 amanda sm-mta[23003]: k42G6D3a023003: Milter: connect:
host=cm56-138-42.liwest.at, addr=86.56.138.42, temp failing commands
..and so it kept temp-failing for about an hour, before I issued the
following:
# /usr/local/etc/rc.d/mimedefang.sh restart
..and it came back running just smoothly. But only for a random time,
and it all happened again.
Sendmail (8.13.6), mimedefang (2.56) and all required perl modules are
installed from the FreeBSD ports collection. Everything is up to date,
as far as I can tell. I also use milter-greylist (2.0.2) for
greylisting, spamassassin (3.1.1) and f-prot (4.6.6).
I have Googled for help on this, but have come up with nothing so far.
Any advice on how to solve this problem will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Bart
# uname -a
FreeBSD amanda 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13
UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
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