MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack

[Julian Field]

In which case the messages should be in your quarantine. Process a few 
with "MailScanner --debug" and see if they show any error messages.

You say you're running the latest, exactly what version number are you 
running?
(MailScanner -v will tell you at the top of the output).

On 27/01/2010 22:13, Vernon wrote:
> It's the latest version (as I downloaded the latest one and it was the same)
> and secondly the messages that are having the problem disappear from the
> location mentioned below. I looked there and they are not there. What seems
> to happen is I will get them an all messages coming through will have that
> issue until I restart MailScanner.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Jules Field
> Sent: Wednesday, January 27, 2010 4:51 PM
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack
>
> For starters, make sure you are running the latest version.
> Then if you can get a message which repeatedly does it, run it through with
> MailScanner --debug --id=xxxxxxx where xxxxxx is the id of the message as
> reported by the MailScanner logs.
> The send the list the output of that command, presuming that it produces
> some sort of error message.
>
> On 27/01/2010 21:24, Vernon wrote:
>    
>> Can anyone please tell me how I can stop this? I have posted it to the
>> lsit before and I was told to make Max Children 3 and I have and yet I
>> am still get this. I'm not running a large email server (at best 100
>> users). I got more memory as suggested but clients are really starting
>> to get angry now. Here I the message I'm getting.
>>
>> MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack, and has
>> therefore deleted this part of the message. Please contact your e-mail
>> providers for more information if you need it, giving them the whole
>> of this report. Attack in:
>> /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/32069/o0RKmwPH002366/nmsg-32069-89.htm
>> l
>>
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>>      
> Jules
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