[Declude.JunkMail] decludeproc causing dns queries to fail

[Will]

For the second time in a month I have come to work to find over 500,000 messages in my proc folder.  The cause is declude’s inability to perform dns queries, thus mail backlogs.  The reason declude cannot perform DNS queries is that no outgoing traffic is being permitted on port 53.  The reason no outgoing traffic is being permitted on port 53 is that decludeproc has consumed the resources allocated to my network interface.  The fix for this is relatively simple.  I stop the decludeproc service and restart it and all is well.     After the first occurrence, it was suggested that I enable winsockcleanup documented as the following at declude.com: WINSOCKCLEANUP    ON Located in Declude.cfg. Some customers had issues related to their network stack causing loss of functionality for basic network operations. The default for this directive is OFF Now I’ve been fooled twice, so I guess shame on me.  Does anyone have a suggestion that would help resolve this?  In the meantime I will be writing a script to monitor the number of message in the proc folder and if it reaches a certain threshold, will restart the decludeproc service.  I really don’t care for workarounds such as this, but I’ve gained a bad image over these two occurrences and I cannot allow it to happen again.   Declude.cfg: THREADS                   100 WAITFORMAIL                     5000 WINSOCKCLEANUP           ON