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Michel Bouissou wrote:
> I discovered and annoying problem using qmail-scanner 1.14: Its
> built-in "timeout" protection doesn't work as expected.
> Example:
> If you use qmail-scanner along with f-prot 3.12b, and feed it with a
> "mailbomb" in the form of a recusrsive zip file that f-prot will take
> forever to try decompressing (let's say the old, well-known 42.zip
> that you can get from http://mapage.noos.fr/arboi/42.zip ), then
> qmail-scanner will sit there forever while f-prot will "decompress"
> the file forever using 100% CPU, and no timeout will be detected.
I just tried the same with uvscan. The server terminated the connection
to the email-client, but uvscan still tried to decompress 42.zip.
Qmail-scanner did not kill uvscan, but if I switch from force_unzip=1
to force_unzip=0 everything is fine. Perhaps your problem lies there
too?


Cheers
Nicki

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