FW: residual mails

[S Mohan]

I checked the message contents. They were valid mails which were truncated.
Is it possible that these are fragments of incomplete SMTP transactions or
transactions that timed out half way thro'?

Mohan

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
Behalf Of Remco Barendse
Sent: 22 October 2002 13:58
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: FW: residual mails


I get these occasional messages that get stuck in the queue too. From what
I can see it's alsmost always spam where they tried some funny stuff to get
the spam through your mailserver.

Wouldn't worry about it too much unless it gets to several messages a day
piling up.

On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, S Mohan wrote:

> Addendum to my earlier mail. This looks like sendmail behaviour as I see
> files in mqueue directory also where df and xf files exist but no qf
files.
> mailq returns empty queue. The xf file only seems to contain one line of
> data saying "<<< DATA".
>
> Thus I surmised moving the files from mqueue.in to mqueue directory would
> not help. This means my machine is gobbling up mails - gives me a scary
> feeling. Can someone help me with this please? I'm posting this to
sendmail
> list also to see if I get a response.
>
> Mohan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S Mohan [mailto:smohan at vsnl.com]
> Sent: 22 October 2002 13:25
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: residual mails
>
>
> I've upgraded to 4.xx version released. Thanks Julian. I feel a major
> enhancement is the facility to use rules for any setting. Great feature
> apart from the speed and enhancement of vulnerability protection.
>
> Over the past few months, I've noticed that some residual dfxxxxx files
> remain in the mqueue.in directory. Mailscanner does not seem to flush them
> at all into the regular mail queue. Why would this happen and can we force
> mailscanner to process these mails?
>
> In V4 rules, can we specify a not condition using a ! before the match
> string for exclusion?
>
> Bye
> S Mohan, Vectra Systems and Solutions Pvt Ltd.,
> smohan at vectrasystems.com <mailto:smohan at vectrasystems.com>  visit us at
> www.vectrasystems.com <http://www.vectrasystems.com/>
>