On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Robert Bannocks wrote:
> I have the attached messages in an exim queue. They are being processed
> by a filter file and failing. They have very long subject lines in them
> the exim filter below is being invoked to filter these. I do not
> believe there is anything wrong with this. Clearly there is some loop
> here but still exim appears to bail out with the following error in the
> panic log:
>
>
> 2007-01-08 14:01:33 1H2arn-0002U3-00 internal problem in userfilter
> router (recipient is majord@???): failure to transfer data
> from subprocess: status=0000 readerror='Error 0'
I am unable to reproduce this problem.
> This is with exim-4.65
Are you sure? One of the -H files you attach contains this:
198P Received: from mailserver.nhm.ac.uk ([157.140.2.2] helo=jess.nhm.ac.uk)
by newt.nhm.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.12)
id 1H2arn-0002U3-00
for majordomo@???; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:15:19 +0000
172P Received: from zeta.sitelutions.com ([69.5.81.43])
by jess.nhm.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.22)
id 1H2apn-0005tk-BU
for majordomo@???; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 22:13:15 +0000
145P Received: from scc by zeta.sitelutions.com with local (Exim 4.52)
id 1H2apn-0000Uf-0d
for majordomo@???; Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:13:15 -0500
047 X-Boxtrapper: uL8tYhi0cwrL0B4wiIW7U4QN2p9ilVj6
I don't see 4.65 in there - the Exim that is processing this message
is 4.12, unless you have been removing or modifying Received: headers.
I have searched the ChangeLog for anything that might relate to this,
and I found the following for 4.14:
79. A "mail" command in a filter could cause a crash if the list of recipients
for the "to:" line was excessively long - this showed up in a reply to
a message with a ridiculously long Reply_to: header line.
It could be that an excessively long Subject: line did something
similar.
Please double check the version of Exim that you are using. If it really
is 4.12 then I suggest you upgrade. If it somehow is 4.65 (which in any
case you should upgrade to 4.66 as 4.65 was buggy), please figure out
why it doesn't say 4.65 in the Received: header in the -H file.
If you still get problems with 4.65/6, please post a new -H file that
fails and I will try harder to reproduce the problem.
Philip
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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.
