Corrupted e-mails

From: Jonathan Belson (jon_at_witchspace.com)
Date: 08/18/04

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    Hiya

    For the last few months, I've had a problem where a small number (less
    than ~1 in 1000) of e-mails get corrupted. All I have in my Maildir
    is something like the following two lines:

    Return-Path: <gvhtvxhxnv@sbcglobal.net>
    Delivered-To: jon@localhost

    In case case it's a spam so it's no great loss, but I've had it happen
    to important e-mails too.

    Here are the appropriate lines from my maillog:

    Aug 18 05:35:17 dookie qmail: 1092803717.270465 new msg 2018
    Aug 18 05:35:17 dookie qmail: 1092803717.270808 info msg 2018: bytes 6860
    from <gvhtvxhxnv@sbcglobal.net> qp 66137 uid 82
    Aug 18 05:35:17 dookie qmail: 1092803717.283085 starting delivery 1895:
    msg 2018 to local jon@localhost
      <snip>
    Aug 18 05:35:32 dookie qmail: 1092803732.535421 end msg 2018

    The original e-mail looks to have been ~6.5kB.

    Here is my .qmail, which runs SpamAssassin on the incoming e-mail for
    this account:

    |/usr/local/bin/spamassassin | /usr/local/bin/maildir /home/jon/Maildir/
    #./Maildir/

    I'm inclined to blame SpamAssassin since I saw a similar problem when
    I had it misconfigured before - that was easy to track down since it
    wrote error messages in the system log left (missing p5 package). This
    time there are no error messages, and the problem only occurs very
    occasionally.

    Has anyone else seen this before? Any clues on what could be going
    wrong? Disabling SpamAssassin would make e-mail unusable since I
    get hundreds of spam e-mails a day.

    Cheers,

    --Jon

    http://www.witchspace.com

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