Re: procmail keeps running out of resources?

well, the thing is, I DID have the size limiting but it didnt seem to
have any affect, so i took it out just in case it was interfering somehow..

so I checked in the log and it seems that it chokes on smaller emails as
well..

>From [email protected]  Tue Apr 12 07:09:28 2011
 Subject: SignUpGenius.com Reminder for Book and a Bite Volunteering
  Folder:
/home/betty/Maildir/new/1302606568.20718_1.beast                  5433
procmail: Program failure (-25) of "/usr/bin/crm"
procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded

regards,
Jason



On 04/12/11 12:18, R A Lichtensteiger wrote:
> jason-fYJcuH/[email protected] wrote:
>
> <> procmail: Program failure (-25) of "/usr/bin/crm"
> <> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded
>
> [email protected] followed up with:
>
> <> Same here... either procmail, or the end mailer.
> <> 
> <> The fact that you both run the same CRM114 install makes me think
> <> that it's not a CRM114 problem.
>
> >From the procmail man page (reformatted for legibility):
>
>   Program failure (nnn) of "x"
>     Program  that  was  started by procmail returned nnn instead of
>     EXIT_SUCCESS (=0); if nnn is negative,  then this is the signal
>     the program died on.
>
> Signal 25 is "SIGXFSZ" or "File size limit exceeded"
>
> The postfix message size limit probably isn't the problem.  That would
> govern the size message postfix accepts, but once it's on the system,
> you're good.
>
> What happens when you feed the example email into crm from the command
> line? How big is/are the message(s)? I'm going to hazard a guess you're
> running into a memory (malloc) limitation inside CRM114.
>
> I notice you aren't using the size limiting from the example recipes
> in the tarball (Crash? Are they still in there?)
>
>   BIGGEST="20000"
>
>   :0
>   * < ${BIGGEST}
>   {
>     # Elided stuff to do if the mesage is less than 20k long
>   }
>
>   :0 E
>   {
>     CRMOUT="`head -c ${BIGGEST} | ${CRM} -u ${CRMDIR} mailfilter.crm --stats_only`"
>     # and so forth and so on ...
>   }
>
> Reto


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