Package: spampd Version: 2.20-9 Severity: important I have spampd in the following config:
exim 4.50-8sarge2 as MTA, local delivery is done by LMTP to spampd, which in turn forwards local delivery to cyrus 2.1.18-1+sarge2. It seems to work fine, as long as there is only one recipient in each message. If there are multiple recipients, LMTP server is supposed to confirm delivery to every mailbox, so after the final . in DATA command there should be as many replies as there were successfull RCPTs (see RFC 2033, section 4.2). I debugged with tcpdump and cyrus correctly sent multiple "250 Ok" lines, but spampd forwarded only one of them to exim. Thus exim was waiting for more replies, cyrus was waiting for QUIT, and spampd just timed out after 6 minutes producing this error: WARNING!! Error in process_request eval block: Child server process timed out! Consequences are, that even thou cyrus delivered the mail to all recipients, exim thought it was delivered only to one of them, so it kept retrying until all of them succeeded, producing lots of duplicates. Also other mail was delayed because exim waits for some time before retrying delivery for the same domain. Cyrus recognizes duplicates and discards them, but that may not be the case for other MDA. A workaround is to set max_rcpt = 1 in the SMTP/LMTP transport, so messages are delivered to only one RCPT at a time. However this causes spampd to analyze the same message multiple times, thus wasting CPU power. I hope this info would help you to find the bug and fix it. Thanks Vladki -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Versions of packages spampd depends on: ii adduser 3.63 Add and remove users and groups ii coreutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities ii dpkg 1.10.28 Package maintenance system for Deb ii libnet-server-perl 0.87-3sarge1 An extensible, general perl server ii perl 5.8.4-8sarge5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii spamassassin 3.0.3-2sarge1 Perl-based spam filter using text -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
