Re: Corrupted messages...

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Jun 09), Chuck Yerkes said:
> Quoting Dan Nelson (address@hidden):
> > Most likely the problem is either spamass-milter or libmilter. 
> > both spamd and sendmail should fork new copies of themselves for
> > each message, so they shouldn't cause parts of one message to end
> > up in another one.
> ...
> > If you can stand it, try running spamass-milter with watchmalloc,
> > using either MALLOC_DEBUG=WATCH (slow) or MALLOC_DEBUG=RW (very
> > slow), which should cause a coredump on bad memory accesses.  I've
> > run spamass-milter under dmalloc and valgrind on my systems with no
> > problems, so if there is a problem it may be OS-dependant.
> 
> Speed isn't the problem as much as watching logs of maybe 500 msgs/hr.
> 
> This is a build option for gcc?

It's a shared library that comes with Solaris, so all you have to do is
set LD_PRELOAD=watchmalloc.so.1 and MALLOC_DEBUG to one of the above
values before starting spamass-milter.  See the watchmalloc manpage for
more info.

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        Dan Nelson
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