There have been a couple of known crash bugs with very badly formatted
email addresses, although I don't think there were any in 2.2.7...

Do you have any sieve scripts? There are definitely some crash bugs in
libSieve < 2.2.6 with badly formatted email addresses.

Aaron


On Wed, Jan 9, 2008, James Greig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:

> 
> Hi Guys,
> 
> Hopefully this is an issue that someone knows, but sods law it probably isnt. 
>  
> 
> We're currently running 2.2.7 (haven't updated ... yet).  All of a sudden 
> since the christmas period (perhaps) we have started having a lot of mail sit 
> in our postfix queue stating "lost connection with 127.0.0.1[127.0.0.1] while 
> sending end of data" deferred.  It seems that 'particular' emails by the 
> looks of it are being deferred whilst being passed to dbmail-lmtpd.  At first 
> we thought that there may have been a spike over xmas of spam that's 
> increased load a bit but increasing process childs, threads etc has not 
> helped.  
> 
> The majority of emails that are being deferred do appear to be spam.  On 
> tailing the logs we can't see anything really in relation to errors reported 
> by dbmail-lmtpd and it seems to be sorting (sort.c) for most other emails 
> fine.
> 
> As noted above we think this has started since around xmas, however, we may 
> be wrong as it may have been ocurring before then and we just had not noticed 
> it, along with an increase of spam this may have just magnified it.
> 
> I seem to remember a mime issue that was discussed a few months back and was 
> wondering if this may be related, however, I can't remember if that issue 
> resulted in a deferr after data.
> 
> Also, on another note, anyone know of a decent way of displaying an email in 
> postfix's deferred queue without the strange formatting?
> 
> Any help is greatly appreciated!
> 
> Kind Regards
> 
> James Greig
> 
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