> On Jun 9, 2016, at 1:53 PM, Eric <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Domain users usually use port 587 (submission) to authenticate for relay 
> purposes. How many users do you have? And, which ones are using the 
> submission port to authenticate in order to send email?

So far, it’s just me. I do have accounts in a half-dozen or so domains, all 
lightly used. I’ll be adding a half-dozen heavier users soon, once things 
stabilize. 

What’s odd is:

1. The segfaults I’m finding are not occurring around the sending of mail; some 
of them are in the middle of the night, which makes me wonder if they’re fake 
auth attempts from someone / somewhere else, brute-force crack attempts, or 
maybe attempts to use invalid characters or somehow trigger other bugs in the 
auth process;

2. With these segfaults, I’m not actually noticing any consequences so far - I 
find them in the logs, but that’s all.  At an earlier point in the build 
process, I started segfaulting on every attempt to send mail when I changed 
from the self-signed cert created automatically to the LetsEncrypt cert I got 
for the domain, and until I raised the softlimit, they didn’t stop. (I think I 
was rebooting the server between changes at that point, which did the hard stop 
necessary for the submission/run change to take effect, since the build was 
brand new and I was the only one using it, and VM reboots are fast… just me 
being lazy.)

Anyway, though, as far as I can tell, mail is working fine for me… but the 
segfaults are still popping up in the logs at weird times and intervals. I’ve 
sent a few messages (to the list) since I made the last change, and I’m tailing 
-f /var/log/messages in a term window, and no segfaults so far since I bumped 
the submission/run softlimit to 200 megs coming up on an hour ago now, but some 
of the windows between segfaults have been longer than that, so I’m still 
holding my breath.

- Steve

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Silicon Goblin Technologies
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