RE: [Sendmail-milter-users] Attempt to free non-existent shared string
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From: Bruce S. <bru...@me...> - 2002-08-06 19:24:28
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At 09:06 PM 8/6/2002 +0200, Johan Ekenberg wrote: > > There is a highly successful and stable product which provides sendmail > > milter functionality within Perl. It is called PerlMx > > (www.activestate.com). Unfortunately, its pricing makes it affordable > > only for large enterprises (I was quoted a price of US$8,000 for a > > license for a single-CPU server). > >Yes. We also had to skip it because of the extreme costs. I had the same situation. Ended up using a C not Perl filter because of concerns about overhead. We process 30,000 plus messages a day. All working very well. If you want to know more see http://mail.medispecialty.com/spamblock Bruce > > ActiveState makes available the patches to the Perl sources that are used > > in the Perl engine that powers PerlMx. I tried building a Perl 5.6.1 with > > their patches, and running Sendmail::Milter under it. Unfortunately, it > > was still unstable. I conclude that the problems are within > > Sendmail::Milter, not Perl. > >Well, I'm not too sure about that. The patches from ActiveState may very >well correct issues regarding PerlMx, but that is no guarantee that these >are the same things causing trouble with Sendmail::Milter. Perl threading >is very complicated and not so easily fixed, or it would have been done >already. > >Anyway, seems our only option is to anticipate future improvments to Perl >threading in general and to Sendmail::Milter in particular. In the >meantime I'll stick to C for all serious miltering. It takes longer to >code but it's fast and reliable when finally deployed. > >Regards, >/Johan Ekenberg > > > >------------------------------------------------------- >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek >Welcome to geek heaven. >http://thinkgeek.com/sf >_______________________________________________ >Sendmail-milter-users mailing list >Sen...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sendmail-milter-users -- Bruce Speyer, CTO Home of OTOHNS.net http://www.otohns.net MediSpecialty.com A Physician Directed Network +001 512-247-7964 or 418-2922 and OBGYN.net http://www.obgyn.net fax 512-247-7965 mobile 512-632-3455 The Universe of Women's Health EMAIL: bru...@me... |