On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:05 +0100, Mark Martinec wrote: > Peter, > >> We use FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11, with amavisd-new-2.4.4,1. >> Today one of our antispam servers had its /var partition overfilled. >> The problem was due to file dumping core on the p001 text part of a >> spam email (I have reported this as a bug to FreeBSD), > > The file(1) that comes with the system is 4.12. > You'd be better off with a version from ports: sysutils/file > >> and that made >> amavisd-new constantly reprocess this spam email thousands of times >> and fill /var/amavis/tmp with 30 GB of half processed emails. >> >> The main problem is that file dumped core, but shouldn't amavisd-new >> give up on an email when it has failed several thousand times in a >> short time span? > > It is the MTA that is repeating attempts. As far as amavisd is concerned, > these are all independent messages. A crashing file(1) causes a temporary > failure (4xx) to be reported to MTA, which retries repeatedly for > few days until the message lifetime expires and a bounce is generated. > I don't think there is much that can be done when essential components > fail. The fundamental goal is not to lose mail when unexpected happens.
Yes, it must have been sendmail that caused the retries, I was too quick to jump on amavisd. Sorry! -- Peter Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
