Re: Explanation of error messages.

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Sep 18), Christopher Crowley said:
> I see this error message in my silo quite a bit. Although not as
> frequently since upgrading to 0.1.2  
> 
> : Milter (spamassassin): write(Q) returned -1, expected 5: Broken pipe
> : Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 
> There are three permutations of this  write(Q), write (D), write(L) .
> 
> I will spend some time looking in the code. An informed
> interpretation would be appreciated, too.

The libmilter part of sendmail is not very well documented (even by
sendmail standards :).  You'll have to dig into the source to find out
exactly what those errors mean.  Broken pipe sounds bad, though; it
implies the milter closed its connection before sendmail wanted it to,
which could mean it's seg-faulting.

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        Dan Nelson
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