No Message Collected

[Stephen Conway]

Hello Scott:

Thanks for the information.  Yes indeed we are in the process of upgrading
that server including Sendmail, and the entire distribution.  I will try the
flock setting.  The Slackware version is 7 I believe, although we have
patched the network services previously.

Thanks for the assistance and advise.

Regards,

Stephen 

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[mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Scott Silva
Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 11:18 AM
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
Subject: Re: No Message Collected

Stephen Conway spake the following on 9/13/2006 7:45 AM:
> Hello:
> 
> I am running with below:
> 
> Slackware Linux
> Sendmail 8.10.2
> Perl 5.6.1
> MailScanner-4.55.10
> SpamAssassin 3.1.0
> McAfee A/V
> 
> After upgrading to MailScanner-4.55.10 , all is working for some time, 
> but recently I have started to get 'No Message Collected' from time to 
> time on messages.  Can anyone advise a reason?  I have seen in the 
> archives that changing the "Lock Type = " setting can help this issue, 
> if so what should I use?  flock ?
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> 
First things first. That version of sendmail has a major security exploit.
You should try to find a version later than 8.12.7. You might as well look
for something in the 8.13 range because of the added features like
greet_pause.
Usually the no message collected means that the remote system dropped the
connection before finishing the message. Flock is the proper setting for
that version of sendmail.
How old is your Slackware? I looked as far back as 8.0 and it came with
sendmail 8.11.4. You might consider updating just for the security
vulnerabilities that an old distro can have. You don't want to have a
rootkitted zombie out there, do you?


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