Re: [AMaViS-user] amavis child dies when received: from is _long_

Toni,

> we've got the problem that sometimes amavis-nanny reports that
> a child went away. ...
> after a longer debugging session i found out that the child dies
> only if a certain kind of message is received. the messages can be
> downloaded from http://stderror.at/amavis/email.txt . as you can
> see the "received: from" line is malicious.

I've seen such messages as well.

The problem is in the way Perl recursively evaluates certain regular
expressions. Please apply the following workaround:

--- amavisd~ Fri Mar 4 16:08:06 2005
+++ amavisd Fri Mar 4 16:08:14 2005
@@ -1857,3 +1857,3 @@
| \[ (?: \\. | [^\]\\] )* \]
- | \\. | .
+ | \\. | [0-9a-z]+ | . # greedy words avoid deep recursion
)+? (?= \(|;|\z|\b(?:from|by|via|with|id|for)\b ) )
-----------

Mark


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