Too many attachements / e-mail bouncing?

[Blaze King]

Thanks for the responses; forgot to mention a couple of things...

We're running Sendmail 8.13.8, the ClamAV that came with Julian's script (0.91.2), and SquirrelMail 1.4.8.  And I'd like to post the entire message details, but because of all the bounces, these messages are >10MB.  Here's the header info with a few details removed:

Return-Path: <�g>
Received: from mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us (mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us [127.0.0.1])
     by mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9SGHS4j015210
     for <(removed)>; Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:17:28 -0700
Full-Name: (removed)
Received: (from apache at localhost)
     by mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us (8.13.8/8.12.11/Submit) id l9SGHP58015208;
     Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:17:25 -0700
X-Authentication-Warning: mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us: apache set sender to (removed) using -f
Received: from (removed)
(SquirrelMail authenticated user (removed))
by mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us with HTTP;
Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <4867.12.202.54.169.1193588245.squirrel at mail.lake-coe.k12.ca.us>
Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: [Fwd: Power and telcom meeting]
From: "(removed)" <(removed)>
To: (removed)
User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.8
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;boundary="----=_20071028091725_44518"
X-Priority: 1 (Highest)
Importance: High


Blaze King

-----Original Message-----
From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jay Chandler
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 1:47 AM
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: Too many attachements / e-mail bouncing?

Blaze King wrote:
> Ok I've searched a bit, but can't find exactly why this is happening.  I have a user that frequently gets blocked by mailscanner for this reason:  "Too many attachments in message".  Thing is, they have only a few attachments, but here's what the log says:
>  
> Oct 28 09:16:54 mail MailScanner[8054]: Too many attachments (299) in l9SGGbLU015119
>  
> If I view the message (in MailWatch or cat the file directly), it appears that the message repeats over and over again.  The message is sent using Squirrelmail, and MailScanner 4.64.1.  This occurs for the user when sending messages to the same domain (same server), and to outside (Earthlink) e-mail servers.  I can't find a problem in the message headers, and I'm not sure where else to look  Any ideas?  Thanks!
>  
> Blaze King
> Lake County Office of Education
> (707) 262-4147
> 
> 

I seem to recall a similar issue back when we were running a particular 
version of ClamAV that was soon patched to fix this.

Can you verify that you're running the latest ClamAV (or not running it 
at all, as the case may be!)?

-- 
Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ
Living Legend / Systems Exorcist
Today's Excuse: Domain controller not responding
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