This is some pretty good info. Can you trow something up on either wiki about exim users/lots of rules/long headers/and default buffer size? I'm sure others might start having this problem.
good find! --Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Zarjazz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, January 16, 2004 8:35 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [SAtalk] Tripwire breaking exim/spamd setup > > > Well it had to happen, I've been recieving some spam that > triggered LOTS > of tripwire rules and overflowing the smtp daemon header buffer. > Extracts from exim panic log below. > > 2004-01-16 13:17:08 1AhTqL-0001gb-Ax string_sprintf expansion > was longer > than 8192 > 2004-01-16 13:17:18 1AhTqa-0001jS-IR string_sprintf expansion > was longer > than 8192 > 2004-01-16 13:17:22 1AhTqj-0001lg-3q string_sprintf expansion > was longer > than 8192 > > Now I could fix this by recompiling exim with increased > buffer sizes but > AFAIK 8192 is the default in all distributions but a quick pipe of the > .cf file through sed s/FVGT_TRIPWIRE/TRIP/g seems to do the trick just > as well :) > > > Z. > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 > Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration > See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. > http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn > _______________________________________________ > Spamassassin-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk > ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
