Yes, I've had similar problems. I had a message with a badly
formatted attachment which for some reason caused spamassassin to
spend a very long time checking. It caused SA to consume large
amounts of swap as well. I had to manually deal with the message in
the end. A timeout on exiscan's part would have been very useful. I
thought it was in there until I checked!
> > I believe the exiscan patch for Exim-4.24 was of the ACL type and I
>> don't see any such option for timeout.
>
>Thank you. Yes. I read something and got the wrong end of the stick.
>Alas! There are some sides which deal with this option, for example:
>http://www.flatmtn.com/computer/Linux-EximExiscan.html
>
>A timeout option would be very usefull. If my virscanner runs into an
>endless loop (due to a bug) the patched Exim sleeps forever. The patched
>Exim should receive a SIG_ALRM after a defined time, I think. (We use
>NetBSD 1.6.1 and Exim 4.24 + exiscan ACL patch.)
>
>Anybody else who have or had similar difficulties?
>
>- oliver
>
>
>Am Di, 2004-02-24 um 12.56 schrieb Odhiambo G. Washington:
>> * Oliver Egginger <oliver.egginger@???> [20040224
>>14:27]: wrote:
>> > > Which versions of exiscan/exim?
>> >
>> > Exim 4.24
>> >
>> >
>> > Am Mo, 2004-02-23 um 16.13 schrieb Odhiambo G. Washington:
>> > > * Oliver Egginger <oliver.egginger@???>
>>[20040223 17:34]: wrote:
>> > > > Is there a timeout option for the exiscan acl patch?
>> > > > The option exiscan_timeout gives:
>> > > > main option "exiscan_timeout" unknown
>> > >
>> > > Hi oliver,
>> > >
>> > > Which versions of exiscan/exim? Perhaps you have carried an old
>> > > exim config file into the 'future' (exiscan-acl) ;-)
>>
>> I believe the exiscan patch for Exim-4.24 was of the ACL type and I
>> don't see any such option for timeout.
>> I think that you are in the upgrading process and instead of crafting a
>> whole new configuration file (because Tom Kistner changed exiscan), you
>> are carrying fwd the old file to the new version. Please look refer to
>> the documentation for the exiscan version that you are using.
>>
>> I had to take a few days myself to make changes when the honchos
>> changed the configurations to ACL style ;)
>>
>>
>>
>> cheers
>> - wash
>>
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