emails that attempt to kill mailscanner {Scanned}

[Richard Mealing]

This issue only happens to me when my server is over loaded. Once I gave it more CPU's and RAM I've not had this problem again.
I find that running spamassassin as daemon and restarting that sometimes helps. The -U switch didn't do anything for me. I'm using FreeBSD.

You should look at installing fail2ban or RBL's on the MTA and check the server loan / swap information.

I do have a lot of mail coming my way, so I might be way off the mark here..

Rich


From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ritchie P. Fraser
Sent: 14 August 2013 09:17
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Subject: RE: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner {Scanned}

At the end of the first line in /usr/sbin/MailScanner... like so...

#!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner -U

Ritchie

From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info<mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Martin Hepworth
Sent: 13 August 2013 19:38
To: MailScanner discussion
Subject: Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner {Scanned}

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

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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:06:50 +0100
Subject: Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner
From: maxsec at gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'maxsec at gmail.com');>
To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'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.

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On 13 August 2013 16:28, Jonathan Horne <jonathanmhorne at outlook.com<javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'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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