Debuggery and Such.
Nov. 25th, 2005 05:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swestrupSpent the day tracing down a pernicious bug in the mailer software on webigail. Once ever month or so I get an email from foo@bar with no content, only two headers and nothing other than the From line and a anti-spam header.
Today I spent a bunch of hours figuring out where it came from and how. After chasing down some blind alleys I discovered that the script that handles the anti-spam filter eats the mail and outputs that result whenever the filter dies trying to process a mail. I recoded that section of the script, and from now on I'll get a reasonable diagnostic about what when wrong, attached to the original letter. Now I just have to wait a month for it to happen again before I can figure out WHY the spam checker sometimes chokes.
In other news, I have updated my profile to more accurately show my schooling. I had a rich and varied edjumacation, I did!
Today I spent a bunch of hours figuring out where it came from and how. After chasing down some blind alleys I discovered that the script that handles the anti-spam filter eats the mail and outputs that result whenever the filter dies trying to process a mail. I recoded that section of the script, and from now on I'll get a reasonable diagnostic about what when wrong, attached to the original letter. Now I just have to wait a month for it to happen again before I can figure out WHY the spam checker sometimes chokes.
In other news, I have updated my profile to more accurately show my schooling. I had a rich and varied edjumacation, I did!
