Hi,
thanks for the help. ldd showed thet the rcpe lib was not used.
After a "make clean" and "make" we found that the rcpe lib is now used
and the huge mail gets deliverd without any problems.
will the fastmail-patch be included in the official cyrus version?
Regards
Michael Menge
Quoting Robert Mueller <robm@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
I had again problems with an huge mail and lmtpd. I believe this is caused by the sieve regex filtering of the huge mail. The lmtp uses about twice the size of the email of mem and all the cpu-time it can get. Then postfix gets a time out, but the lmtpd still keeps running and does not finish its work. At the next delivery attemt from postfix a new lmtpd gets huge and takes as much cpu time it can get, while the first lmtp is still running and so on.I'd double check that it's a regex issue. When you find a runaway lmtpd process, use gdb to attach to it and get a stack backtrace.We run cyrus 2.3.8 and postfix 2.2.9 on a SLES10 system (pcre-6.4) I tried the rcpe-patch from fastmail to solve this problem, but delivering the same mail to the patched cyrus still showed the same behavior. Has anyone else had this problem and had success with the patch from fastmail?The patch we created solved a similar but different problem. Basically I saw certain emails with large headers interact with certain regexps and cause the lmtpd process to grow to > 2G of memory and core dump. So two things to do: 1. Use gdb to get a stack backtrace to confirm that it is a problem inside a regexp 2. Double check that it actually is using the pcre library (check the output of running ./configure to see that it actually finds the pcre libraries on your system). Rob ---------- robm@xxxxxxxxxxx Sign up at http://fastmail.fm for fast, ad free, IMAP accessible email ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
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