Re: sendmail, spamass-milter and zombies

[Petar Bogdanovic <petar%smokva.net@localhost>]

On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 01:05:54PM +0000, Stephen Borrill wrote:
> I'm using sendmail and spamass-milter from pkgsrc on netbsd-5. When I use
> the -B flag to spamass-milter to forward on spam mail to another address,
> when a mail gets forwarded the child sendmail process (often) remains as a
> zombie.

If spamass-milter is not indispensable for some reason, you may want to
try [1]mopher as a (more or less) drop-in replacement.  It does most of
what spamass-milter does and much more.  It's also in [2]pkgsrc-wip.

There was an [3]announcement a couple of months ago and some useful
[4]mailing-list posts.

Example of a REJECT due to high score:

        mopherd[627]: 49729: connect: host=187.117.158.88.radiocom.ro 
addr=88.158.117.187
        mopherd[627]: 49729: connect: tarpit: delay=5
        mopherd[627]: 49729: helo: name=david-PC
        mopherd[627]: 49729: envfrom: 
from=petarwhw%sellyourhousedallas.com@localhost
        mopherd[627]: 49729: envrcpt: rcpt=petar%smokva.net@localhost
        mopherd[627]: 49729: envrcpt: spf: helo=david-PC 
from=petarwhw%sellyourhousedallas.com@localhost spf=neutral
        mopherd[627]: 49729: data: queueid=06A1224F2D61
        mopherd[627]: 49729: header: 
message-id=6DA14D32B1BD550EFDC807BEE7CE44A3-5be31cf1dbc856899c92b5a449804ce%smokva.net@localhost
        mopherd[627]: 49729: eom: message=7763 headers=746 body=7015
        mopherd[627]: 49729: eom: spamd: spam=1 score=34.3 
symbols=DCC_CHECK,DIGEST_MULTIPLE,DYN_RDNS_AND_INLINE_IMAGE,DYN_RDNS_SHORT_HELO_IMAGE,FSL_HELO_NON_FQDN_1,HK_NAME_DRUGS,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_51_100,RAZOR2_CF_RANGE_E8_51_100,RAZOR2_CHECK,RCVD_IN_BRBL_LASTEXT,RCVD_IN_PBL,RCVD_IN_PSBL,RDNS_DYNAMIC,SHORT_HELO_AND_INLINE_IMAGE,URIBL_AB_SURBL,URIBL_BLACK,URIBL_DBL_SPAM,URIBL_JP_SURBL,URIBL_SC_SURBL,URIBL_WS_SURBL
        mopherd[627]: 49729: eom: match: stage=eom rule=4 reply=REJECT
        mopherd[627]: 49729: close


                Petar Bogdanovic


[1] https://github.com/badzong/mopher
[2] http://pkgsrc.se/wip/mopher
[3] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.mail.postfix.user/237586
[4] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/mopher