RE: latest spam-milter

[Cowles, Steve]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Smith [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 9:47 AM
> Subject: Re: latest spam-milter
> 
> 
> I too have downloaded the latest CVS version. It seems to be 
> running ok. Spamass-milter died sometime last night. There is
> no core dump though. Maybe I'll turn on debugging and see
> what's happening.
> 
>  This is what I see in mail.info.
> 
> Nov 19 06:26:17 address@hidden sendmail[15929]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
> gAJEQHOh015929: Milter (spamassassin): to error state
> 
>  Like I said, no core dump. The process just seems to die.

Thought I would add to this thread. Last night my milter also died after
running for months withut a single problem. FWIW: I run a low volume mail
server. 1000+ a day

I too, see nothing in the logfiles that point to why this happened. Well
except for the 2 bytes expecting part (see below). I have never seen this in
any of my logfiles. 

The following logfile entries show when sa-mailter died. Every e-mail after
this, errored out with the "to error state". Also note the size=0 part of
the from header portion. Fricken spammers!

Nov 18 23:59:39 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
from=<address@hidden>, size=0, class=0, nrcpts=1,
msgid=<address@hidden>, proto=SMTP,
daemon=MTA, relay=[216.52.222.152]

Nov 18 23:59:39 excelsior spamd[11229]: connection from 
localhost.mydomain.com [127.0.0.1] at port 2038

Nov 18 23:59:39 excelsior spamd[10361]: processing message
(unknown) for root:99, expecting 2 bytes.

Nov 18 23:59:39 excelsior spamd[10361]: identified spam
(11.1/5.0) for root:99 in 0.0 seconds, 2 bytes.

Nov 18 23:59:39 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter add: header: X-Spam-Flag: YES

Nov 18 23:59:40 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter add: header: X-Spam-Report : 11.10 hits, 5 required;\n
* -0.0 -- Missing From: header\n  *  9.0 -- Missing Date: header
\n  *  0.3 -- Subject: is empty or missing\n  *  0.8 -- BODY:
Spam phrases score is 00 to 01 (low)\n  *  1.0 --
Missing To: header

Nov 18 23:59:40 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter add: header: X-Spam-Level: ***********

Nov 18 23:59:40 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter add: header: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin
2.42 (1.115.2.14-2002-10-04-exp)

Nov 19 00:03:39 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter (spamassassin): timeout before data read

Nov 19 00:03:39 excelsior sm-mta[10358]: gAJ5xcd5010358:
Milter (spamassassin): to error state

etc...

Every e-mail after this just went through without being processed through
SA. When I bounced sa-milter/spamd, everything is back to normal.

Is there any debug info I can supply to help localize this problem? Could
the zero bytes possibly be casuing this abort?

Steve Cowles