It's not a "Flaw" in Spamdyke, because the People that uses Qmail but not
Spamdyke
had the same kind of problems, you can check on the qmr forum and see that
was not
a Spamdyke Problem.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 2:51 PM, Michael Colvin <[email protected]>wrote:

> As a side note on this thread...
>
> I've not applied the patch on my boxes yes, just haven't had the time.
>  I've
> just run the script that was provided every couple days, and that cleared
> the hung process.
>
> However, I have noticed something interesting.  I used to have to run it
> every couple days.  Since this patch came out, I'm not having any hung
> processes, or very few.  I'm looking at MRTG graphs of SMTP processes,
> which
> use to grow pretty regularly, but over the last two weeks, they've stopped.
>
> It makes me wonder if this wasn't either something the spammers had figured
> out was a "Flaw" in Spamdyke, and were exploiting it, or if whoever was
> doing it simply got banned/dropped, or got a life.
>
> Anyway, I'll apply the patch when I get a chance, just thought it was
> interesting that the "Need" for the patch seems to have passed....
>
>
> Michael J. Colvin
> NorCal Internet Services
> www.norcalisp.com
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: [email protected] [mailto:spamdyke-users-
> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Hartmut Wernisch
> > Sent: Monday, April 12, 2010 7:09 AM
> > To: spamdyke users
> > Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] [patch01] TLS hung processes
> >
> > On 22 Mar 10, Mirko Buffoni wrote:
> > > At 13.10 19/03/2010 +0100, you wrote:
> > > >At 13.39 19/03/2010 +1100, you wrote:
> > > > >On 19/03/2010 07:15, [email protected] wrote:
> > > > > > Started a new thread for this improved patch. This should fix the
> > > > > > SSL_accept, SSL_shutdown and SSL_read issues. It temporarily sets
> > the
> > > > > > socket to non-blocking and timesout after the configured time.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is a replacement for the previous patch, apply to a clean
> > > > > > spamdyke-4.0.10 code base.
> > > >
> > > >So far, with the new patch, no sign of hung or defunct processes has
> > been
> > > >noticed.
> > > >I also shortened the default qmail timeoutsmtpd to 600 (10 minutes)
> > > >Survived a good amount of spam in the 11:00-12:00 time range.
> > > >Good sign.
> > >
> > > After 3 days and several spam storms (that can be seen from collected
> > > statistics)
> > > no hanged up spamdyke process, nor defunct qmail-smtpd process have
> been
> > > noticed.
> > > IMO, I'd say your latest patch is stable enough to be included in the
> > > official trunk
> > > since it corrected a very annoying behavior.
> > >
> > > Thank you for your support, Trog.
> >
> > yes me too. no more idle spamdyke processes or defunc qmail process
> > since using this patch.
> >
> > best,
> > Hartmut Wernisch
> >
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