[imp] mail that was 400K of text - help please!

[david at infonet.com.br]

                It is any message > 400K. What it is "memory starvation"?





Citando Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:

> Quoting david at infonet.com.br:
> 
> >             I discovered while trying to open a mail that was 400K of text,
> > as soon as
> > I click to open this mail, the httpd process (Apache) is spawned and uses
> > 99.9% of the
> > processor for the entire 1 1/2 minutes while the mail is being opened.
> >             Any suggestion?
> 
> Is this *any* message > 400K, or a specific message or messages > 400K?
> 
> If it is any message > 400K, you either have a resource allocation problem
> on the system (e.g. memory starvation) or you have a software problem (error
> in your imap libraries, etc).
> 
> If it is specific messages only, they are probably non-conforming messages,
> and the best thing to do is delete them, or if possible find out why
> they are non-conforming so either the sender can fix it, or Horde can
> try to work around it if it is reproducible and worth the effort.
> 
> For instance, spam and virus messages are often mal-formed messages and
> can cause things to go nuts...
> 
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> Eric Rostetter
> The Department of Physics
> The University of Texas at Austin
> 
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