On Jul 26, 2015, at 11:26 PM, Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Jul 26, 2015, at 7:42 PM, Dianne Skoll <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, 26 Jul 2015 18:03:38 -0600 >> Philip Prindeville <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Jul 26 17:44:31 mail mimedefang[31780]: t6QNhOYb027848: >>> smfi_addheader returned MI_FAILURE >> >> Sendmail timed out (that's in the Milter (mimedefang): timeout before >> data read log line) so it tempfailed the mail and exited. >> >> MIMEDefang, of course, had no idea that happened. So when filter >> processing is finally done and mimedefang tries to call >> smfi_addheader, the original Sendmail process is long gone and the >> milter pipe is broken, hence the libmilter call fails. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dianne. > > Okay, thanks. So the next question… how to fix it? Would increasing the > milter timeouts resolve the issue? > > I’m currently configured as: > > Xmimedefang, S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, F=T, > T=S:1m;R:1m;E:5m > > (I guess ‘C’ is just defaulting to 300, which is hardcoded in > sendmail/milter.c …) > > Or could it be that something is just hanging indefinitely, and if so, how do > I go about fixing this? Because 1 minute seems like a REALLY long time to > wait on sending or receiving data… > > -Philip Update: I changed the timeout argument to T=S:2m;R:2m;E:10m and rebuilt sendmail.cf, then restarted the service. The problem seems to have gone away, but I’m not sure why. -Philip _______________________________________________ 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 [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
