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Subject: exim can overload system without deliver_load_max
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Package: exim
Version: 3.35-1
Severity: wishlist
If you use exim with, say, fetchmail and a procmail-based filter such as
spamassassin, mail delivery can easily take over your machine as a hundred or
more Perl processes get forked simultaneously.
If the default exim config had deliver_load_max = 10, it would protect
ordinary users (or shared servers) from runaway mail delivery.
Thanks,
Ian Redfern.
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ii libident 0.22-2 simple RFC1413 client library - ru
ii libldap2 2.0.23-3 OpenLDAP libraries.
ii libpam0g 0.72-35 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libpcre3 3.4-1.1 Philip Hazel's Perl Compatible Reg
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Subject: Re: Bug#137367: exim can overload system without deliver_load_max
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On Friday, March 08, 2002 3:09 PM, Ian Redfern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you use exim with, say, fetchmail and a procmail-based filter such
> as
> spamassassin, mail delivery can easily take over your machine as a
> hundred or
> more Perl processes get forked simultaneously.
>
> If the default exim config had deliver_load_max = 10, it would protect
> ordinary users (or shared servers) from runaway mail delivery.
Upstream development on exim3 stopped more than three years ago. As Sarge
has been released, Debian's default MTA is now exim4. The maintainer of the
exim 3 packages has stated that he will not be changing the functionality of
the packages in any significant way, so I'm closing this report. (c.f.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=204492)
Regards,
Adam
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