Milter-greylist

HILLEMBRAND Cedric wrote:
> Dear list,   
>

Hi,

> I’m a new user of Milter-Greylist. 
> 
> I installed milter-greylist since few days with sendmail 8.12.1 (and 
> spamassasin + mitler-spamc, smrazor) on Solaris 8.
> 
> The results are really good !
> But I’m disappointed, because after one or two days, my daemon stops to 
> work.  
> It was the case this night. I can read this information from my syslog : 
> 
> /Feb  2 03:44:10 castor sendmail[19897]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
> j122i7nG019897: Milter add: header: X-Greylist: Default is to whitelist 
> mail, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.5 (castor.cesr.fr 
> [195.83.102.11]); Wed, 02 Feb 2005 03:44:10 +0100 (MET)
> 
> Feb  2 03:44:15 castor sendmail[19909]: [ID 801593 mail.notice] NOQUEUE: 
> POSSIBLE ATTACK from [4.32.196.36]: newline in string "narryaz\r "
> 
> Feb  2 03:44:20 castor sendmail[19910]: [ID 801593 mail.error] 
> j122iInH019910: milter_read(greylist): cmd read returned 0, expecting 5
> 
> Feb  2 03:44:20 castor sendmail[19910]: [ID 801593 mail.info] 
> j122iInH019910: Milter (greylist): to error state
> 
> /I tried to install the new version (1.7.5), but the results are the 
> same... where can I look ?   

If you're running Solaris 8, make sure you've installed the latest 
patches. There is a nasty memory leak in the pthread libraries prior to 
patch  108827-40. It makes the milter-greylist process grow pretty 
quickly and dump core once the available virtual memory is exhausted.

This patch has later been obsoleted by 108993-39.
So check that you have one of those two patches installed. You can get 
the latest 108993 revision from http://sunsolve.sun.com/. Beware, this 
is a pretty nasty patch that really requires a quick reboot after 
installation, as it screws up user authentification. It's also not 
possible to install it using PatchPro (it is marked as making the kernel 
instable).

-- 
Matthieu Herrb