[Esd-l] /tmp/mailchk.??????

John D. Hardin jhardin at impsec.org
Sun Dec 12 10:57:05 PST 2004


On Thu, 9 Dec 2004, Scott Taylor wrote:

> I'm seeing a lot of files (mailchk.??????) filling up the /tmp
> directory and html-trap.procmail script is the only thing I can
> see that might be creating these.  I could be wrong, if so, what
> else could it be?

Make sure mimencode is working. The sanitizer is extracting the
attachment but isn't cleaning up after itself when it can't decode the
base64.

Dev snapshot has a fix for this, and for an infinite-loop bug.

  http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/development/html-trap.procmail

Stable release shortly if no problems reported.

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