dspam-3.6.0 on FreeBSD (was: Re: dspam for FreeBSD)

Ion-Mihai Tetcu itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
Tue Nov 1 07:06:52 PST 2005


On Thu, 27 Oct 2005 04:56:55 +0300
Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu at people.tecnik93.com> wrote:

> 
>  [ ports@ cc'ed as a safety measure for my inbox ]
> 
> On Wed, 26 Oct 2005 12:36:12 +0300
> Ertan Kucukoglu <ertank at ozlerplastik.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I've found your e-mail address in Makefile for dspam port.
> > 
> > I know that there is a recent new version of dspam. I wonder if it
> > will be available in ports anytime soon. Would you advise please?
> 
> 
> 3.6.0 is already available on FreeBSD as dspam-devel port. (As a note
> it was added in our Ports Collection the same day the official release
> got out - this time we beat all other OSes, for example debian still
> hasn't it :) If you would be reading dspam-users mailing list (which
> is something I recommend) you'd already know this (I'm active on
> dspam-* lists and I've posted there on this subject);
> 
> You an safely:
> portupgrade -R -o mail/dspam-devel dspam-3.4\*
> 
> 
> Reasons I haven't MFC it yet in mail/dspam:
> - there are a lot of changes (like dynamic back-end support) which I
> feel it's better to have them tested for a while before declaring them
> safe (esp. the new hash_drv, esp. on more "exotic" arch like sparc
> where on solaris and linux I have crash reports and a fix in cvs)
> - there are a few bugs (in CGI) which I haven't have time to patch
> - MaxMessageSize from dspam.conf also applies to clamav virus scanning
> (if WITH_CLAMAV= yes) which IMO is a nice way for self-shooting; given
> the way this is implemented now (see dspam.c) patching this elegantly
> is not trivial.
> (- there also is a memory leak report which I haven't been able to
> reproduce yet.)

I reproduced this, but I have no fix yet; the leak is about 120KB per
message processed.

So until either I or someone upstream manage to identify and fix this,
I won't upgrade mail/dspam.

Help, of course is welcomed.


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IOnut
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