[Mimedefang] 12,000 /var/spool/MIMEDefang/mdefang-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx directories in 7 days
David F. Skoll
dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Fri Feb 6 09:59:08 EST 2004
On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 postmaster at mc.duke.edu wrote:
> Yes, I knew this was a band-aid solution. Are there any command
> line swtiches for MIMEDefang that might be thrown to shed more light
> on the cause?
Not really. It may be a Milter bug; if the Milter callbacks don't happen
as promised (if, for example, a thread gets killed without the cleanup
callback being invoked), the directories will hang around.
> As you pointed out above, perhaps the rm -r command could be used
> instead of rmdir within MIMEDefang.
MIMEDefang cleans up recursively; the source code is in rm_r.c If you
supply --enable-cleanup-with-rm to ./configure, then it cleans up by
forking/execing "rm -r -f ...." instead of using the built-in C code.
However, I doubt this will solve the problem.
[...]
> I have to say that it is here to stay, rich text messages, that is.
Not on this list. And once enough people (or a big enough ISP) realize
that HTML mail is a security risk and a perfect spam-shrouding tool, things
will start to change.
Regards,
David.
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