#145539 sqwebmail starts eating up memory when uploading an attachment

Package:
sqwebmail
Source:
courier
Description:
Courier mail server - webmail server
Submitter:
Marcell GAL
Date:
2026-07-01 21:25:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#145539#5
Date:
2002-05-02 12:22:31 UTC
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#145539#10
Date:
2002-05-02 12:56:05 UTC
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Marcell GAL <cell@mail.x-dsl.hu> writes:


[...]

Works like a charm here. Can you send me a sample attachement so I may
reproduce the problem ?

Ciao
        Racke
#145539#15
Date:
2002-05-06 09:16:06 UTC
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Hi,

As strace -p <runaway process> revealed
the problem was a missing Maidir/tmp directory.
Some graceful action should be taken (log, error
message in browser etc..) instead of just trying
to open "tmp/...." thousand times. Maybe using tmpfile() would be an
even better idea.
I think setup should at least make /etc/skel/Maildir/tmp.

Courier-imapd also complained about the problem, though
it was graceful (syslog and imap error), not just eating
up CPU and mem.

However, let me note that sqwebmail is very nice and fast.

Marcell
#145539#20
Date:
2002-05-06 09:33:18 UTC
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Marcell GAL <cell@x-dsl.hu> writes:

Aha, that looks really like a bug in sqwebmail. Explains why I never
encountered that problem. Thanks you very much for investigating this
problem. I think I'll report this problem upstream.

Just run maildirmake with the right UID/GID would do the trick :-)

Ciao
        Racke
#145539#29
Date:
2026-07-01 20:59:27 UTC
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I have recently taken over maintenance of sqwebmail.  Can you confirm if this
is still an issue in the current version (6.3.1-1.5.1-4)?
#145539#32
Date:
2026-07-01 20:59:27 UTC
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I have recently taken over maintenance of sqwebmail.  Can you confirm if this
is still an issue in the current version (6.3.1-1.5.1-4)?