From: Clifton Royston (cliftonrlava.net)
Date: Sun Mar 02 2003 - 14:01:23 CST

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 11:28:18AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 06:53:59PM -0500, Wietse Venema wrote:
> > > i have the following in master.cf
> > >
> > > smtp inet n - n - - smtpd -o content_filter=bogofilter:
> > >
> > > bogofilter unix - n n - - pipe
> > > user=filter argv=/home/filter/bf.sh ${sender} ${recipient}
> >
> > In that case, the file size limit is that of the master's parent
> > process (ultimately, inherited from /sbin/init). Master resets the
> > file size limit only when it can't make sense of the the inherited
> > value. In that case it sets the limit to the generous value of
> > MAX_INT, which is 2GB on 32-bit systems.
>
> great. that eliminates that worry.
>
> > There's another limit you may want to be aware of. As of Postfix 2.0.4
> > the command time limit is enforced like it used to be many, many,
> > years ago. Mail that takes too much time is returned as undeliverable
> > (but the bounce is not run through the content scanner).
>
> yep. i'm still running 2.0.3 at the moment, will upgrade to 2.0.4 soon.
> in the meantime, my bf.sh script uses procmail to enforce timeouts on
> bogofilter and spamassassin (i rewrote the scripts a few days ago when i
> noticed that some instances of spamd (v2.44) were stuck, with run-times
> of over 30 minutes).

  Do you perhaps mean spamc? This sounds like the bug I submitted to
the SpamAssassin people from my load testing last year - once spamc
connects successfully, there is no timeout on its comm to spamd. It is
supposedly fixed in 2.50 and after according to the email I got
recently, but I have not rechecked it.
 
  -- Clifton

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