Re: OOM on Specific Emails

[Matthieu EXT_BAECHLER <mb...@linagora.com>]

Hi,

On 04/26/2017 07:58 PM, Jerry Malcolm wrote:
> I've decided to take this in steps.  My first objective is to just 
> kill the email the first time it causes an OOM and at least stop it 
> from going into an infinite loop trying to re-process it. My plan is 
> to modify SetMimeHeader.java and add to to catch block.  But I need 
> help on what I can do to kill the email.  Is there anything I can set 
> in the Mail object or the MimeMessage object that will cause JAMES to 
> just kill it or at least get it into a suspended state so JAMES won't 
> restart it?
>

Just set its state to GHOST and it won't go further in the pipeline.

> Thx.
>
> BTW... my next step is to analyze the message in that same catch block 
> before killing it and hopefully figure out the characteristic that is 
> causing the OOM and simply kill it before the OOM can even occur.  But 
> that's phase 2....  Just want to stop the infinite loop first.

The easiest thing to do is to dump it in a file and log an error with 
the path of the file IMO.

Cheers,

-- 
Matthieu Baechler

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