[Maia-users] TROUBLE in check_mail: mime_decode-1 FAILED

[Gary MacKay]

Robert LeBlanc wrote:
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> Gary MacKay wrote:
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>> I have a CentOS 4.4 system with the usual 
>> amavisd/maia/spamassasin/clamav programs, that has been running fine for 
>> year. This morning it stopped passing email. The logs show this error 
>> all over the place and mail piling up in the queue. Since it was Maia 
>> 1.0RC6 I decided to upgrade it to svn 1.0. I upgraded all the perl and 
>> pear modules, everything. I am still getting this error.  The only thing 
>> I find in the mailing lists is in reference to Net::Server 0.92 but I am 
>> on 0.96 now (after upgrading) and still no go. Have no clue why it 
>> decided to die now. I have not touched this machine in many months.
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> That still sounds like a Net::Server issue.  I haven't tried 0.96 yet
> myself, but 0.93 and 0.94 seem to work fine.  Hopefully they haven't
> gone and broken it again :/
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> Also, bear in mind that you need a reasonably recent amavisd-maia to be
> able to use the newer Net::Server (0.93+) versions, which is to say Maia
> 1.0.1 or later.  When you say you upgraded to "svn 1.0" I trust you
> meant "branches 1.0", as in:
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>   svn checkout https://www.maiamailguard.com/svn/branches/1.0
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> That would give you the latest in the 1.0.x series (1.0.2+).  If you did
> something else, you may have checked out an earlier version by mistake.
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> Finally, make sure that you're using the amavisd-maia file that you
> think you are.  Your start-up (init) scripts may still be pointing to
> your old amavisd-maia, or you may need to update your symbolic links if
> you've got "amavisd" linked to "amavisd-maia", etc.
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I still have no idea what caused the system to fail in the first place. 
It has not been touched in a year. But, after upgrading everything, 
(CentOS, Maia, pear, perl, etc.) I had failed to point to the proper 
amavisd-maia. After I fixed that link it works fine now. Just wish I 
knew what happened....

- Gary