Milter-greylist

Hello...

 I recently updated milter-greylist from 2.1.12 (on a rhel3 server that
had been working great for years) to 4.1.1 from EPEL on a new rhel5
server both running sendmail.  It seems that the older 2.1.12 version
only looked at the envelope of an email message and the newer 4.1.1
version will also look at the data of the email (dacl ?).   I ran into a
problem with a 18 Gig email (yes!).  milter-greylist seemed to suck the
entire message into ram.  Since the new mail server only has 6Gigs of
ram, "bad things" happened.  Specifically ram usage and swap usage maxed
out, the milter-greylist daemon stopped working, the message was
rejected with a 4xx error.  After restarting the milter daemon, all was
good until the message was tried again.  lather, rinse, repeat.  I
eventually found the root cause and deleted the large emails ( all six
of them).

questions:
1: Has anyone else run into this?

1a:  If so has this been fixed in a newer version?

2: Is there a way to stop milter-greylist from processing the data stage
completely?

I realize limiting message sizes either within sendmail or the milter
msg size max will work around this, but sometimes large messages need to
be sent and received.
  

I am also running clamav milter and spamass milter and IIRC, they both
handle large messages gracefully by using disk space in /tmp.




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