[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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