Phishing emails cause MailScanner to loop infinitely

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Anthony,

Sounds like the same problem I discovered yesterday.  Both you and
I are running Solaris (10 sparc for me), the Linux/BSD crowd hasn't
seen this yet?

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Thu, 4 May 2006, Anthony Peacock wrote:

> Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 14:53:56 +0100
> From: Anthony Peacock <a.peacock at chime.ucl.ac.uk>
> Reply-To: MailScanner discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> Subject: Phishing emails cause MailScanner to loop infinitely
> 
> Hi,
>
> I have just had to back out of MS 4.53.7 to MS 4.52.2, because the MS 
> processes got stuck in a loop when they found a phishing email.
>
> I am running on Solaris 8 x86.
>
> After the upgrade all worked well for a while, and then I noticed that the 
> incoming queue was getting backed up.  When I looked at the logs it appeared 
> that the MS processes were looping around finding a phishing email.
>
> I have attached a text file with the relevant log lines for one of the 
> processes.  In reality there were many MS processes stuck in these loops for 
> different phishing sites.
>
> I have saved some of the queue files that caused this and once things have 
> settled down may be able to test this in DEBUG mode.
>
> Backup off to MS 4.52.2 caused all of the queue to be processed successfully.
>
> -- 
> Anthony Peacock
> CHIME, Royal Free & University College Medical School
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