This is a forwarded message From: Jeff Chan jeffc@surbl.org To: William Stearns wstearns@pobox.com Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 8:45:52 AM Subject: : Re: procmail exited w/ EX_TEMPFAIL and stucked spamd processes

===8<==============Original message text=============== On Wednesday, June 30, 2004, 7:38:42 AM, William Stearns wrote:

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From: Damon McMahon inst_karma@hotmail.com

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Are you by chance using Bill Stearn's sa-blacklist?

Same thing happened on my mail server yesterday - it almost ground to a halt, stalled procmail processes all over the place, sendmail errors identical to yours - very ugly.

Eventually traced it down to the fact that the sa-blacklist.current had inadvertently quintupled (5x) in size overnight, from 1.5 to almost 7 MB in size. I use daily auto-updates of this list so hadn't noticed until the side-effects appeared.

    Am I missing something?  Please take a look at

http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current.domains

• 23,752 domains, just

before Chris started adding 6dos. I relinked the last good one when I brought the server back up.

For generating ws.surbl.org, that's perfect, and I've re-enabled my getting of sa-blacklist.current.domains from your server.

When Chris can get the 6dos data disabled, and you link back to an un-6dosed but otherwise current version, I think we will be fully functional again in terms of the ws.surbl.org generation process. I suppose you could rename the 6dos blacklist to disable it also.

    If you're using my list, what version are you using?  200406281446 

should be a safe one to use.

I was mainly referring to the folks using sa-blacklist as a cf file, which one of the versions apparently did get several times larger than before, presumably due to the inclusion of the 6dos data.

Jeff C.