Martin, > i see the following errors in mylog file: > "(!)Decoding of p007 (ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators) > failed, leaving it unpacked: do_ascii: timed out" > it comes up, when processing a RAR archive (10MB) which contains two highly > compressed .dxf CAD files (125MB and 26MB). > > unrar uf the archive works, but what does this error "do_ascii: timed > out" mean? p007 is the 125MB .dxf file... > > can anyone enlighten this? > how can this timeout be avoided?
do_ascii calls a perl module Convert::UUlib, which is just a wrapper around uulib. I'm not surprised that this library has problems with certain files. amavisd sets a timer for each decoding operation, which in case of do_ascii the timeout is set to two thirds of remaining time as configured by $child_timeout (time in seconds, commonly set to 8*60), which would yield about 5 minutes available to uulib decoding. Your choices are either to increase $child_timeout (not forgetting to also increase Postfix smtp_data_done_timeout on smtp services feeding amavisd), or to completely disable do_ascii, by removing or commenting-out references to do_ascii in a @decoders list: @decoders = ( ... # ['asc', \&Amavis::Unpackers::do_ascii], # ['uue', \&Amavis::Unpackers::do_ascii], # ['hqx', \&Amavis::Unpackers::do_ascii], # ['ync', \&Amavis::Unpackers::do_ascii], ... ); either in amavisd source, or by assigning a complete replacement list to @decoders in amavisd.conf). Btw, amavisd-new-2.6.2 disabled these three entries by default. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
