MailScanner ignored?

[Michele Neylon :: Blacknight Solutions]

If you have multiple MX records it could happen...

Mr. Michele Neylon
Blacknight Internet Solutions Ltd
http://www.blacknightsolutions.ie/
http://www.search.ie/
Tel. + 353 (0)59 9137101
Lowest price domains in Ireland

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Julian Field
> Sent: 08 January 2004 15:43
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: MailScanner ignored?
>
>
> At 10:53 08/01/2004, you wrote:
> >I'm probably missing something, but I've never seen this before.
> >
> >This message got through mailscanner and no mailscanner headers were
> >applied.  I checked the logfile on the handling mailserver for the
> >appropriate MessageID and there is no question that MailScanner checked
> >the message...
>
> I've never seen MailScanner just not scan a message. What I
> suspect is that
> you might have sendmail started up incorrectly. Kill *all* the sendmail
> processes that are running and then start up MailScanner. You
> should end up
> with 2 or 3 sendmails (I don't know what version of sendmail running or
> what your setup is).
>
> >When SPAM gets through (very infrequently) I normally check the headers
> >to make sure the message was scanned and to evaluate the score received.
> >Did MailScanner stop processing this message because of the
> >"X-AntiAbuse" headers?
>
> No, definitely not.
>
>
>
> ><SNIP>
> >
> >Message-ID: <942558110033.P21hl1OpeH3n3U at localhost>
> >From: "Tierra Best" <xdwquhin at amrer.net>
> >To: sales at trudeau.org
> >Subject: Bring Thousands of Visitors to Your Web Site
> >Date: Thu,  8 Jan 2004 10:25:55 +0000 (GMT)
> >X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it
> >with any abuse report
> >X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - gandalfmail.net
> >X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - gandalfmail.net
> >X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [80 80] / [80 80]
> >X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain -
> >MIME-Version: 1.0
> >Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> >         boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0222_01C3C64F.FBD71A00"
> >
> ></SNIP>
> >
> >Chris
>
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