From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 8 15:56:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8725A37B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from empty1.ekahuna.com (empty1.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0202943E4A for ; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:56:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pjklist@ekahuna.com) Received: from pc-02 (pc02.ekahuna.com [198.144.200.197]) by empty1.ekahuna.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id com; Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:56:39 -0700 From: "Philip J. Koenig" Organization: The Electric Kahuna Organization To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 15:56:38 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Hang problem with spamass-milter... Reply-To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: Joe Talbott In-reply-to: X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Message-ID: <20020708225639429.AAA921@empty1.ekahuna.com@pc02.ekahuna.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2002 17:02:36 -0400 > From: Joe Talbott > On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 03:07:47PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote: > > You sure this is the trigger, and not an email over 250k? An unpatched > > spamass-milter will definitely hang on any email that spamc decides is > > too big to process (250k default). There are patches at > > http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/spamass-milt/ that fix this problem > > and add some more functionality ( see patches 349, 351, 354, 381, 385 ). > > Most of the patches require a CVS checkout, though, which is probably > > why the port doesn't include them. > > I applied patch 349 to the port and reinstalled. I'm still having issues > with multiple mails coming in at approximately the same time hanging > spamass-milter/spamc. > > To repeat: > > for i in `jot 10 1`; do > echo "test $i" | mail -s "test $i" email@dom.com > done > > I also applied patch 372 which didn't solve the problem. > > Joe After running into various problems trying to build spamass-milter from source (ie GNU/linux-y dependencies, etc), my decision was to go with Mimedefang instead.. although I don't have it setup yet. Mimedefang runs as a sendmail milter and also has built-in support for Spam Assassin, so it seems that you get Spam Assassin plus the additional benefit of attachment blocking/filtering/munging, virus scanning (if you have an AV program installed) and presumably a more stable piece of code. (since Mimedefang seems to be widely and successfully deployed) There is an up to date port also. (Speaking of ports - is it really true that the spamass-milter port has been around since April, judging by the date I see listed in the Makefile? I had a long discussion with Dan Nelson only 3 weeks ago about issues building spamass-milter from source, and the impression I got at the time was there was no port yet??) -- Philip J. Koenig pjklist@ekahuna.com Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New Millenium To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message