unrtf is version 0.19.3-1.1 from Ubuntu 12.04 LTS repository.

I guess I'll have to see about finding a newer copy and see if that fixes it.

However, unless I can identify a test case, I won't really know if it's fixed.

Is there anyway to identify a specific mail message based on the file
name in the unrtf command line that piler launches?

Jeff

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 11:37 AM, André Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> I am on my cell phone, so I will keep it short.
> I see there were bug reports for unrtf about this issue a few years back.
> The devs answered in December 2014 that they fixed it, one is here:
> http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?34677
> Can you check your version? You can get the sources right here:
> http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/unrtf/?C=M;O=A
>
> Regards,
> André
>
> Am 30. April 2015 17:27:13 MESZ, schrieb Jeff Larsen <[email protected]>:
>>
>> In the last 24 hours I've been seeing the load and CPU on my Piler
>> system get out of control. I'm finding one or more processes owned by
>> the piler user with the command "unrtf" that is pegging the CPU.
>>
>> The man page says this a converter for Rich Text Format. I would guess
>> that perhaps piler is decoding attachments so they can be searchable.
>>
>> That's all well and good, but how to I track down these messages that
>> unrtf is choking on? And then what do I do with them?
>>
>> The ps command shows me this:
>>
>> /usr/bin/unrtf --text 400000005542367a08ccec0c00f0dee541ab.a1.bin
>>
>> I can kill the process, but eventually the problem returns.
>>
>> Is piler returning to finish up the message from the killed process,
>> or do we have a series of problematic attachments coming in?
>>
>> I am suspicious of a new contact of mine that is sending mail with the
>> dreaded winmail.dat attachments. I've given
>> her info on how to stop
>> it, but she may not cooperate. It's not something I've seen much of
>> lately, maybe she has a really old Outlook version. In any case,
>> that's just my guess at the root of this issue.
>>
>> Full disclosure: The piler store folder is on NFS, which sometimes
>> gives us trouble, but this particular issue is a new one. I've been
>> running piler for a year or more.
>>
>> Piler version is 1.1.0.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>
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