RE: current state of spamass-milter

[Nate Schindler]

I *did* have some kind of issue with this...
I think my problem was that I have messagewall at the front-lines accepting 
client connections, and messagewall keeps an open connection with sendmail 
regardless of whether or not it's talking to a client.  I just changed my 
timeouts.

Without remembering why it works, spamass-milter is using the "-- -t 0" switch 
to disable timeouts in spamc, and sendmail kills persistant client connections 
(messagewall) at 1hr - Timout.command in sendmail.cf because messagewall walks 
the conversation with sendmail up to 'mail from' before it even gets a client 
connection.  Messagewall automatically reconnects when a connection is 
terminated.
The real security-related timeouts are controlled my messagewall in my set-up.  
5 minutes max idle time.

So, basically I have sendmail restarting unused child processes every hour, and 
my problem went away.

-----Original Message-----
From: address@hidden
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Behalf Of Dan Nelson
Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2004 12:13 PM
To: Chad Whitten
Cc: address@hidden
Subject: Re: current state of spamass-milter


In the last episode (Sep 30), Chad Whitten said:
> ive got 4 mx servers running mimedefang + spamassassin & sendmail
> 8.13.  i tried out spamass-milter about a year ago but it would
> randomly die.  Is this fixed now?  Ive downloaded via cvs and
> compiled and plan to test it out on one of my mx servers but was just
> looking for some feedback before giving it a go.

I haven't had my milters die on me in months, but they are relatively
light-duty (10k messages/day).

Whenever you get a crash, report it so I know there's a problem :)  The
only thing that I know will cause the current CVS code to crash is an
ipv6 connection.  There might be a simple fix but I haven't looked at
it.

-- 
        Dan Nelson
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