Ummm.Ok.  Well, that's not how I remember the thread, and a patch to
Spamdyke has apparently resolved the issue for those in this thread.
Perhaps the issue QMR was experiencing was similar, since they are patching
Qmail to handle TLS, I believe, and the issue seemed to involve the TLS
process.  Regardless, I haven't looked at QMR since finding Qmail Toaster,
and don't miss it.

 

Regardless, the cause of the issue wasn't the point of my post.  The
apparent exploiting of the initial issue was what I was trying to point out,
and that it appears to have ceased, either because it's been rendered
ineffective, or the person(s) doing it have moved on.  I was curious if
anyone else had noticed.

 

 

Michael J. Colvin

NorCal Internet Services

 <http://www.norcalisp.com/> www.norcalisp.com

 

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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marlon Klee
Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 2:01 PM
To: spamdyke users
Subject: Re: [spamdyke-users] [patch01] TLS hung processes

 

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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