Phishing emails cause MailScanner to loop infinitely

[Randal, Phil]

I think it affects everybody.  I've just backrev'd to 4.52.2 because of
an ever increasing incoming mail queue under 4.53.6 on Linux.  

And the backlog is vanishing fast under 4.52.2.

Cheers,

Phil

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Phil Randal
Network Engineer
Herefordshire Council
Hereford, UK  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info 
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf 
> Of Jeff A. Earickson
> Sent: 04 May 2006 15:14
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Phishing emails cause MailScanner to loop infinitely
> 
> 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
> > WWW:    http://www.chime.ucl.ac.uk/~rmhiajp/
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