Jose-Marcio Martins da Cruz <jose-marcio.mart...@mines-paristech.fr>
writes:

> Well... There are still something which intrigates me. The original
> version of the pool of works is running for more than two years on a
> Debian etch, which was upgraded to Lenny some time ago. But the MTA is
> postfix, not sendmail. An not a single crash...

That's my experience with sendmail too.  Until a week ago.


> A possible explanation is the timeouts set up on sendmail side.
>
> This bug only generates a crash when an inactive connection was
> detected by libmilter (not by the MTA). So, if the MTA timeout for
> inactive connections is less than two hours, the connection will be
> closed by the MTA and the filter will never crash. I'm wondering if
> some of the default timeouts set by debian can't be bigger than two
> hours...

Is it somehow possible to avoid MTA timeout and still have libmilter
time out? 


> Can you tell me what are your timeout values ?

sendmail timeouts (I believe all these are Debian and/or sendmail
defaults):

# timeouts (many of these)
#O Timeout.initial=5m
#O Timeout.connect=5m
#O Timeout.aconnect=0s
O Timeout.iconnect=2m
#O Timeout.helo=5m
O Timeout.mail=2m
#O Timeout.rcpt=1h
O Timeout.datainit=2m
#O Timeout.datablock=1h
#O Timeout.datafinal=1h
O Timeout.rset=1m
O Timeout.quit=2m
#O Timeout.misc=2m
O Timeout.command=5m
O Timeout.ident=5s
#O Timeout.fileopen=60s
#O Timeout.control=2m
O Timeout.queuereturn=5d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.normal=5d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.urgent=2d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.non-urgent=7d
#O Timeout.queuereturn.dsn=5d
O Timeout.queuewarn=4h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.normal=4h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.urgent=1h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.non-urgent=12h
#O Timeout.queuewarn.dsn=4h
#O Timeout.hoststatus=30m
#O Timeout.resolver.retrans=5s
#O Timeout.resolver.retrans.first=5s
#O Timeout.resolver.retrans.normal=5s
#O Timeout.resolver.retry=4
#O Timeout.resolver.retry.first=4
#O Timeout.resolver.retry.normal=4
#O Timeout.lhlo=2m
O Timeout.auth=2m
O Timeout.starttls=2m



milter timeouts:
Xspamassassin, S=local:/var/run/spamass/spamass.sock, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m;E:10m
Xclamav, S=local:/var/run/clamav/clamav-milter.ctl, F=, T=S:4m;R:4m



Bjørn



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