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Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:43:16 -0400
From: Jason Tishler <jason AT tishler DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Bug report: procmail hangs on large messages.
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Sec,

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> I have a problem with cygwin and procmail. If messages exceed a
> certain size, procmail just hangs, eating 100% cpu without doing
> anything. 
> 
> I've been trying to debug this further, but it just hangs, even with an
> empty .procmailrc file.
> 
> Funny enough if I run procmail from within "strace" it runs fine, even
> with larger messages.
> 
> I'm at a loss how provide you with more info about this problem.
> 
> I binary-searched for the cutoff-point:
> 
> Does not work: 8573458 bytes. 
> Does work:     8573457 bytes.

Sorry, but I cannot reproduce the above problem:

    $ wc -c big.mail 
    10001689 big.mail
    $ procmail <big.mail
    $

Could this be a BLODA problem?

    http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda

Jason

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