[Mimedefang] uuencoded messages kill my mimedefang slaves {Scanned by Allteks Mailsafe}

[Paul Houselander (SME)]

> I'm using Mimedefang 2.63 on FreeBSD 6.2, with MIME-Tools-5.425
> 
> I'm using this script to block unknown recipients for some downstream
> MXs that I front-end:
> 
> http://www.mimedefang.org/kwiki/index.cgi?RecipientCheckBDBCache
> 
> Sometimes slaves die like this:
> Mar 20 01:06:24 ame2 mimedefang-multiplexor[72716]: Slave 6 stderr: uu
> decoding: no begin found
> Mar 20 01:06:24 ame2 mimedefang.pl[73106]: Clearing handles.
> Mar 20 01:06:24 ame2 mimedefang.pl[73106]: bye bye.
> 
> This results in a message deferral:
> 
> Mar 20 01:06:24 ame2 sm-mta[88134]: m2K76NjM088134: Milter: data,
> reject=451 4.3.2 Please try again later
> 
> I found that *any* message with uuencode data would cause this error.
> In
> fact, a message consisting of nothing but "begin 600 image.pdf" is
> sufficient
> to cause the problem.
> 
> The "uu decoding: no begin found" error happens in decode_it() in
> [PERL-LIBRARY]/MIME/Decoder/UU.pm.  I put some debug in there and
> determined
> that the $in parameter is being passed as a string name of a temp file,
> instead of an open filehandle.
> 
> I put an ugly hack in decode_it() to open the input file.  That allowed
> decode_it() to finish successfully, but then:
> 
> mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 4 stderr: Out of memory during request
> for
> mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 4 stderr: 4084 bytes, total sbrk() is
> mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 4 stderr: 66859008 bytes!
> mimedefang-multiplexor: Slave 4 died prematurely -- check your filter
> rules
> 
> So something is still wrong after decode_it() finishes.  At his
> point I decided to try avoiding the uudecoder altogether and added
> a filter_create_parser() with $parser->extract_uuencode(0) (instead
> of the default extract_uuencode(1)).  That is working around the
> problem successfully.
> 
> This works for me for now since I'm only doing the recipient check in
> Mimedefang and don't need the bodies decoded.  But I'm planning to
> use Mimedefang for content filtering bodies in the future, so I'll need
> to resove this problem first.
> 
> I haven't tracked down where decode_it() is being invoked.  Does anyone
> have
> any idea where that is?  Any other pointers?

Hi Mark

Im suffering from the same problem, any chance you could expand on your work
around? Im only using mimedefang to check for valid recipients, where do I
set the $parser->extract_uuencode(0) do I just create a

Sub filter_create_parser () {
 my $parser = MIME::Parser->new();
 $parser->extract_uuencode(0);
}

within my mimedefang-filter?

Kind Regards

Paul