huge mail hangs lmtpd (solved)

[Michael Menge]

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 at fastmail.fm>:

>
>> 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
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