Re: [AMaViS-user] amavisd-new filling /var/amavis/tmp because of

Peter,

> We use FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE-p11, with amavisd-new-2.4.4,1.
> Today one of our antispam servers had its /var partition overfilled.
> The problem was due to file dumping core on the p001 text part of a
> spam email (I have reported this as a bug to FreeBSD),

The file(1) that comes with the system is 4.12.
You'd be better off with a version from ports: sysutils/file

> and that made
> amavisd-new constantly reprocess this spam email thousands of times
> and fill /var/amavis/tmp with 30 GB of half processed emails.
>
> The main problem is that file dumped core, but shouldn't amavisd-new
> give up on an email when it has failed several thousand times in a
> short time span?

It is the MTA that is repeating attempts. As far as amavisd is concerned,
these are all independent messages. A crashing file(1) causes a temporary
failure (4xx) to be reported to MTA, which retries repeatedly for
few days until the message lifetime expires and a bounce is generated.
I don't think there is much that can be done when essential components
fail. The fundamental goal is not to lose mail when unexpected happens.

Mark

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