Hartmut Wernisch wrote: > Hi! > > On 17 Mar 10, [email protected] wrote: >> Quoting "Eric Shubert" <[email protected]>: >> >> >>> I believe this is related to the "TLS bug". See thread: Spamdyke 4.0.10 >>> - frequent hanging processes". >> It hasn't been proven there is a TLS bug. The diagnosis, as described >> in the old message you keep posting seems very unlikely due to the way >> spamdyke handles its network connections. >> >> I've yet to see any supporting evidence for this "TLS bug" theory - >> I've looked at the code, developed patches for spamdyke, and debugged >> problems. If there were a general problem, we'd likely be seeing more >> reports. >> >> Please provide some debugging information as per my previous request. > > Here only a short input from my side: > > I have an forwarding mail server running (catch all for a domain and > forward to an external mail address). > Since 8th March 2010 spamdyke processes were growing, but no qmail-smtpd > defuncs, and I had to kill the old processes manually. All mails causing > the idle processes seems to be spams. > > In spamdyke.conf following option was set to examine SSL communications: > > tls-certificate-file=/var/qmail/control/servercert.pem > > Because this server is not use for storing and fetching mails I didn't > update the servercert.pem. So this is an old expired certificate! > > Commenting out "tls-certificate-file" and setting "tls-level=none" seems > to prevent these spamdyke processes which never ends. > > I use the same qmail and vpopmail package on other servers with a valid > certificate without problems. So maybe the problem could be here?! > > I hope this helps a little bit. Currently I have no time for a deeper > investigation! > > best, > Hartmut
Thanks for your input, Harmut. I too changed to "tls-level=none" and the problem has gone away. This is on a server that was seeing several of these per hour. -- -Eric 'shubes' _______________________________________________ spamdyke-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.spamdyke.org/mailman/listinfo/spamdyke-users
