ANNOUNCE: beta 4.27.5 released

[Ken Anderson (Pacific Internet)]

I'll grab the final 4.27 when it's out and try again.
It may just be time for another MailScanner box!
Thanks for your efforts!
Ken A.
Pacific.Net


Julian Field wrote:

> Unfortunately the robustness improvements I have made to the MIME decoder
> result in it going more slowly. There is pretty much nothing I can do about
> this, I'm afraid. The decoder needed to be more robust than it was, as
> there have been a couple of cases recently where messages (particularly
> caused by MTAs bouncing the whole message rather than just the headers or
> the first few lines) have managed to get past MailScanner. You could have
> it faster, but at the cost of robustness.
> I have just re-written some of the code to try to make it faster, I hope
> that will help. If you want to switch off the main improvement, then
> disable the "ExplodePart" subroutine in Message.pm.
>
> Sorry, there's not much more I can do about this :-(
>
> At 00:39 26/02/2004, you wrote:
>
>> I will try to get more info on what happened as time permits.
>> I can tell you that it seemed to be the upgrade that caused the backlog
>> of mail in mqueue.in. Right now I'm just glad to see the number of
>> messages in mqueue.in dropping again. Here's what happened visually
>> after upgrading from Mailscanner-4.26.5-1 to MailScanner-4.27.6-1 at 11
>> am this morning: http://www.pacificsites.com/~ken/ms/02252004.png
>> I tried turning off DCC, Pyzor, tweaking a few other options, but to no
>> avail. I'm back to 4.26.5-1 now and things snapped back rather quickly
>> when I downgraded.
>> Thanks,
>> Ken A
>>
>>
>> Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>>
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>>
>>>>> What do you mean with not getting scanned ? Is mail stuck there or
>>>>> something? Same version runs like a charm here.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's steadily building up a backlog of mail. It is scanning, but seems
>>>> to be too slow to keep up. The incoming volumn has not increased.
>>>> I'd like to back up to a previous version.
>>>> Any help appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Just do rpm -i <old.version.rpm> --nodeps --force
>>>
>>> And dont forget to put back your old config.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> Raymond.
>>>
>
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