emails that attempt to kill mailscanner

[Martin Hepworth]

You need to put the -U at the first line on the MailScanner perl script

On Tuesday, 13 August 2013, Jonathan Horne wrote:

> hmmm, its only some emails, not all of them (and its always emails that i
> would never accept anyway, high scoring spam).
>
> taking a look at hte mailscanner.conf file, i dont see offhand where to
> add a -U.  any tips?
>
> jonathan
>
>  ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:06:50 +0100
> Subject: Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner
> From: maxsec at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'maxsec at gmail.com');>
> To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info');>
>
> this problem is normally caused by config issues, like not having the -U
> switch set in the main MailScanner executable.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth, CISSP
> Oxford, UK
>
>
> On 13 August 2013 16:28, Jonathan Horne <jonathanmhorne at outlook.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jonathanmhorne at outlook.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>  i didnt try it yet... but if i set the number of attempts to 0 what will
> happen? i would like to just delete these emails immeidately, i dont see a
> need to retry it after 5 minutes.
>
> if 0 is not the right way to accomplish this, what is the correct way to
> dump emails that attempt to kill the process?
>
> thanks,
> jonathan
>
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