[Mimedefang] Sendmail bug with multiple queue directories

2006-08-22 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi all, I know it's not directly relevant, but since everyone here is using Sendmail[1] it probably affects you, so I hope David doesn't mind. As documented, if you have multiple queue directories (e.g., /var/spool/mqueue/qdir00, qdir01, qdir02, etc), and QueueDirectory specification that ha

Re: [Mimedefang] MIMEDefang 2.57-BETA-1 is available

2006-05-09 Thread Nik Clayton
David F. Skoll wrote: 2) And controversially: A change to the slave-scheduling algorithm. In previous versions, when the multiplexor went to pick a slave to do work, it picked the oldest available slave, where "age" is measured by how long ago the slave process was started. It might be worth c

Re: [Mimedefang] Memory Usage

2006-04-05 Thread Nik Clayton
Trevor wrote: Hi, I'm running 2 X sun Fire V210 2X 1GHz CPU's with 2GB RAM. Running Sendmail-Mimedefang-SpamAssassin. I have a MAX of 20 processes using Embed Pearl. What determines the memory sise of each process many people on this list have 20-30mb sizes mine on the other hand are around 75

Re: [Mimedefang] 40K+ emails a day and choking

2006-01-17 Thread Nik Clayton
David, David F. Skoll wrote: Stephen Ford wrote: I'm running Solaris 9 on a dual processor 220R with 2 gigs of ram and the box is having trouble keeping up with spam!?!? I hate to say this, but switch from SPARC to a commodity Intel box. Intel and AMD chips far outperform SPARC for the kind o

[Mimedefang] MXCommand: connect: Connection refused: Is multiplexor running?

2005-06-07 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi all, We're seeing repeated instances of MXCommand: connect: Connection refused: Is multiplexor running? [...] mfconnect: Error communicating with multiplexor on our content filtering farm. Once MD starts logging these it never seems to recover, and while it still processes some m

[Mimedefang] [sendmail patch] Log greetpause rejection time

2005-06-03 Thread Nik Clayton
All, Here's a(nother) sendmail patch (against 8.13.4) for review. [ I realise this isn't directly MIMEDefang related, but I figure the audience here is likely to find this useful. If not, please let me know I'll refrain from posting these here ] http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/change

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-06-02 Thread Nik Clayton
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: As an example, I've rewritten suggested-minimum-filter-for-windows-clients into separate modules, and made that available here: http://www.xs4all.nl/~johnpc/mimedefang-modular/ I like that a lot. That's quite close to the sort of thing I had in mind, bar a few detail

[Mimedefang] [sendmail patch] access_db rejections at SMTP banner time

2005-06-02 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi all, This isn't strictly MimeDefang related, but it does fix a milter-related bug with Sendmail, and it can make access_db rejections more efficient, so I thought I'd pass it on for comment and review. This patch (to Sendmail 8.13.4) http://jc.ngo.org.uk/trac-bin/trac.cgi/changeset/269

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-31 Thread Nik Clayton
Jan Pieter Cornet wrote: Except... um, what is "SpamReportAddress" supposed to do, anyway? Add a header with the correct address to report spam to, to each incoming email? It's a hypothetical module that reads an e-mail address from its config file (or a 'SpamReportAddress' section of the mime

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-12 Thread Nik Clayton
David F. Skoll wrote: Nik Clayton wrote: Any interest in a community effort around this? Last time I looked at this I got as far as pulling MD in to my public Subversion repository so I could branch it and start noodling around. No noodling has happened yet, but I'd like something like th

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-12 Thread Nik Clayton
David F. Skoll wrote: This is on our roadmap... eventually... We've just gone through massive pain to reorganize CanIt into proper Perl modules that are maintainable, easy to separate, and modular. We made the effort because CanIt is paying the bills. Eventually, we plan on a complete revamp of MIM

Re: [Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Paul Whittney wrote: However, I hit the same issue, multiple config files, with slightly different functionality, or a complete lack of certain functions. I actually had more trouble with revision control of the ziptest parts, the actual "defang notice", boilerplate additions, and the changes to t

[Mimedefang] Next generation mimedefang-filter

2005-05-12 Thread Nik Clayton
Hi all, I'm thinking out loud here. I've got a number of different systems running MimeDefang, grouped in to 'classes'. Each system in the same class has identical functionality, and some, but not all, functionality can be shared by different classes. At the moment each class has a custom mimed