Segfault

Charles Lacroix clacroix at cegep-ste-foy.qc.ca
Wed Aug 19 20:32:46 IST 2009


Yeah latest version rocks :)

I was with an old version and got a problem with some docx attachement, 
and it would
just fill up my memory. I updated to last version and it took like 36sec 
( 6 times the default 6 seconds queue scan )
for the message to hit the max attempts and be redirected to quarantine. 

Its probably the best feature ever :)

thanks

Julian Field wrote:
> The latest versions have protection systems against exactly this kind 
> of problem.
>
> On 15/08/2009 23:42, Yann Bachy wrote:
>> In fact this has worked fine for at least over a 100 days (uptime)... 
>> but server has been installed about 1 or 2 years ago ... never had 
>> this problem before
>>
>> We finally found the problem.... there was a mal-formatted mail in 
>> the queue... I put it aside and gonna check it out on monday morning 
>> when I get back to it.
>>
>> I'll let you guys know if I find something, thanks anyway... I'll do 
>> some updates ;)
>>
>> bye!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -- 
>> Yann Bachy
>>
>> CAPENSIS
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>> 59290 Wasquehal
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>>
>>
>> Quoting Martin Hepworth <maxsec at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Yann
>>> that's a really old version of mailscanner - there's an update 
>>> debian port
>>> somewhere or move to the generic installer.
>>>
>>> normally this is something like a bad spool file, or the fact you;ve
>>> upgraded postfix and the version of MS you've got doesn't understand 
>>> the new
>>> spool  file format.
>>>
>>> Has this ever worked or is this a new install??
>>>
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Martin Hepworth
>>> Oxford, UK
>>>
>>> 2009/8/14 Yann Bachy <yann.b at capensis.fr>
>>>
>>>> Hello everyone!
>>>>
>>>> I've got the following problem with my mailscanner:
>>>>
>>>> every time Mailscanner loads a batch of mails to scan it quits and 
>>>> starts
>>>> all over again :
>>>>
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
>>>> Scanner version 4.55.10 starting...
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 748 hostnames 
>>>> from the
>>>> phishing whitelist
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>>> init
>>>> function SQLBlacklist
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Starting up SQL Blacklist
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 0 blacklist entries
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>>> init
>>>> function MailWatchLogging
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Started SQL Logging child
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Config: calling custom 
>>>> init
>>>> function SQLWhitelist
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Starting up SQL Whitelist
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Read 2 whitelist entries
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Using SpamAssassin 
>>>> results
>>>> cache
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Connected to SpamAssassin
>>>> cache database
>>>> Aug 14 18:13:59 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Enabling SpamAssassin
>>>> auto-whitelist functionality...
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Using locktype = flock
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: New Batch: Found 15 
>>>> messages
>>>> waiting
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: New Batch: Scanning 5
>>>> messages, 922438 bytes
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit 
>>>> for
>>>> message 8248C328003.1CFD1
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit 
>>>> for
>>>> message 132F5328005.8800B
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit 
>>>> for
>>>> message 96FA0328004.08A04
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:00 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit 
>>>> for
>>>> message 212D9328007.B19A9
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:01 localhost MailScanner[6844]: SpamAssassin cache hit 
>>>> for
>>>> message 9735C328006.BEBA0
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:01 localhost MailScanner[6844]: Virus and Content 
>>>> Scanning:
>>>> Starting
>>>> Aug 14 18:14:10 localhost MailScanner: Process did not exit cleanly,
>>>> returned 0 with signal 11
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> and it does this over and over again
>>>>
>>>> I ran an strace on the process and get a segfault when it calls a 
>>>> brk()
>>>>
>>>> Mailscanner is running with postfix on a Debian 4.0 2.6.17-2-686
>>>> Mailscanner : 4.55.10-3
>>>>
>>>> thanks for any info
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Yann Bachy
>>>>
>>>> CAPENSIS
>>>> 30 rue du Triez
>>>> 59290 Wasquehal
>>>> ----------------------
>>>> Tel     03 59 39 13 40
>>>> Fax     03 59 39 13 49
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>
>
> Jules
>



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