Keefe John wrote: > Bill, > > Thanks for the response. Apparently my encoding (force UTF-8 in your MUA if it doesn't display as Chinese) went through OK then?
> > Here are some of them that are sitting in my queue: > > 056F From: =?koi8-r?B?7sHUwczY0Q==?= <[email protected]> > 064F From: "=?windows-1254?Q?Evg=F6r_Mobilya?=" <[email protected]> > 074F From: "=?iso-8859-9?B?S2FodmFsdP0gTWVrYW79?=" <[email protected]> > 058F From: =?koi8-r?B?8MXU0Q==?= <[email protected]> > 077F From: =?windows-1251?B?7C7W4uXy7e7pIOHz6/zi4PA=?= > <[email protected]> > 067F From: =?windows-1251?B?8eDp8g==?= <[email protected]> > > It also happens when the subject is funky, like this example: > > 052F From: Mrs Rosemary Collins <[email protected]> > 187 Subject: =?windows-1256?Q?DEAR_FRIEN?= =?windows-1256?Q?D_PLEASE_R?= > > Thanks again, > > Keefe > Not sure at this point if those are 'otherwise' valid messages, or soem for of malware. BUT -- all of those carry intial strings that are indicative of use of non-ASCII character sets. The smtp standard very much prefers 7-bit ASCII in the 'envelope' & headers, and even in 'content' (body and attachments) *unless* identified as recognized MIME type encodings. Exim is more forgiving - it is inherently '8-bit clean', ordinarily just ignores those *unless* it cannot use them at all. You mentioned Debian, so if you are using the common Debian-specific configuration tools, we may have pinned-down 'a' cause, but I am out of suggestions as to where to look for a solution. A long shot - but given where it is crashing, it might even be related to the underlying OS or file system in use. There is a specialized support mailing list for Debian-Exim, and there should be more expert solutions there somewhere, as the author's native code-set is not ASCII, either, and he is for-sure a Debian user as well as developer. Wander over there and see what an archive search turns up. URI is in your docs. Best, Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: 韓家標 Bill Hacker [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, May 17, 2009 10:47 PM > To: Keefe John > Subject: Re: [exim] queue run: process crashed with signal 11 while delivering > > > > John, > > OFF LIST > > To try to track down those odd 'From:' headers. > > This account has Chinese characters in the longname - but not windows-1254 > encoded. > > I'll post more on-list once we see what this does. > > .. I'm suspecting the messages you mention are coming off PDA's.. > > Best, > > Bill Hacker > > [email protected] > > > > Keefe John wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Recently I've been having a problem with exim and I've been pulling out my >> hair trying to figure it out. Basically what is happening is that when >> people send my server mail with strange From: headers the system has >> problems. Here's an example of a From: field that would cause a problem: >> From: "=?windows-1254?Q?Evg=F6r_Mobilya?=" [email protected]. It seems to >> be related to From fields that have =? in them. >> >> When these emails come in, which happens to be all the time, a number of >> things happen. Firstly, the exim queue freaks out: >> >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 351 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M4MG2-0002y4-5z >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 353 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M1omA-0002WY-3M >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 354 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M1flT-0005z1-J4 >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 355 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M5IZ7-0003Pd-K5 >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 360 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M1ZXv-00007r-29 >> 2009-05-17 12:33:27 queue run: process 369 crashed with signal 11 while >> delivering 1M52Vd-00085s-FE >> >> I'll also see a number errors like this: >> >> 2009-05-17 21:14:31 1M5qbz-00082q-1M internal problem in domain_filter >> router (recipient is [email protected]): failure to transfer data from >> subprocess: status=000b readerror='Success' >> >> I'm running Exim 4.69 on Debian 5. >> >> How do I fix this? >> >> Keefe John >> Techware >> >> >> > > -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
