Jeff Koch wrote on Thu, 02 Oct 2003 00:24:10 -0400: > Interesting that you are using MailCorral. We spent a few weeks testing it > with about 20 email accounts and it would tend to crash and hang - thereby > refusing to accept mail. This was two or three months ago and the developer > was unable to figure out what was happenning. When it worked it was a great > product. We particularly like the corraling of spam and sending users a > list of spam that was caught each day. We had modified the program slightly > so that you only needed to click on the subject line and the email would be > forwarded to you. How is it working for you? >
Yes, I know those crashes ;-) And I worked together with Eric for several months to fix most of them. It seems most of them dealt with unusually made-up base64-encoded mails. However, even after all these fixes it kept crashing regularly on our machine with the most traffic and once or twice on the machine with the next most traffic. I suppose not because of the load but simply because a machine with higher traffic is more likely to get one of those "malicious" mails. He finally sent me a small debug file which we compiled in and waited for good logging output about the problem. And waited, and waited, and waited ... We didn't have a single crash since then which was back in May or so. Once in a while, seldomly, there's some debug statement written to the mail log, but it doesn't crash anymore. It seems the debug file has also code which is able to help MC recover from the crash or just avoid it. So, I have MC running happily with that debug file on several machines now :-) There are some other small bugs and problems I wish could be fixed soon and Eric seems to be very busy at the moment with other projects for a living, but all in all we are quite happy with it :-) Are you sure that your experience is only "two or three months" ago? I wonder because those Notify mails you mention have had additional HTML links for long, you didn't need to add any clickable links. Also note that the "refusal of mail" isn't done by MC but by sendmail. If it cannot connect to the milter it will refuse the mail if ordered in sendmail.cf to do so. You can change this to issue a temporary error or to just accept every mail it doesn't get a response for. If you do that then each time MC crashes you will just get more spam but no mail will get refused. This is a good indicator to know when it crashed :-) Anyway, after applying this debug code it shouldn't crash at all anymore. Kai -- Kai Schätzl, Berlin, Germany Get your web at Conactive Internet Services: http://www.conactive.com IE-Center: http://ie5.de & http://msie.winware.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
