Re: Zero length emails

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 10:54:10PM +0300, Matti Aarnio wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 12:39:36PM +0100, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> > Since a few days Zmailer (running on FC6-x86_64) started acting up for me.
> > I had a crash of the daemon and since about the same time I am receiving
> > a large number of totally empty emails which contain only the envelope
> > "From" line like:
> > 
> >   From <>  Wed Apr 25 11:24:35 2007
> > 
> > No headers or body at all.  Any idea what might be something like this to
> > suddenly start?
> > 
> >   Ralf
> 
> I have once done something alike.
> At that time the original version of the message in the spool
> was manually overwritten with one a lot smaller one.
> 
> I am not sure of what exactly happened with your setup.
> 
> Latter you reported:
> 
> > sm[15796] trap stack segment rip:2aaaaaf49d1a rsp:7fffef6ef8d0 error:0
> > sm[17676] trap stack segment rip:2aaaaaf49d1a rsp:7fffef1ab390 error:0
> > sm[16256] trap stack segment rip:2aaaaaf49d1a rsp:7fff126a0880 error:0
> 
> 
> Could you compile with "-g" option added to CFLAGS (if not already,)
> and  then:
>   gdb ./sm
>   (gdb) list *0x2aaaaaf49d1a 
> 
> my 64-bit Linux is running F7test3, or thereabouts..

I blew away the mail queue since some of the files indeed were a little
irregular looking but that didn't solve the problem.  A little later the
problem magically fixed itself before I had a chance to take a closer
look ...

  Ralf
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