Denial of Service attack Messages Constantly

Jerry Benton jerry.benton at mailborder.com
Fri Aug 19 14:30:29 UTC 2016


Steve,

Can you zip the raw source of a message (the file) that triggers this
and email it directly to me?


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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com
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-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com>
Reply: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Date: August 19, 2016 at 10:27:05 AM
To: MailScanner Discussion <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
Subject:  Re: Denial of Service attack Messages Constantly

> I still haven't found a good solution to this even after trying all of
> the suggestions posted on the previous threads. If turn off "Dangerous
> Content Scanning" the error goes away but you lose that functionality.
>
> I have had to disable it until a solution can be found. Its not ideal.
>
> Good luck!
> Steve
>
> On 08/18/2016 04:43 PM, Mark Sapiro wrote:
> > On 08/18/2016 08:49 AM, Aaron Pursell wrote:
> >>
> >> The problem is, my users and I keep getting messages like this:
> >>
> >> "
> >>> 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/12835/78C9F481B0DA.ACDF4/nmsg-12835-2.html"
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> The path doesn't exist when you look and the message never gets
> >> delivered. What can I turn off or adjust to make sure this doesn't happen?
> >
> > What's in the Mail log associated with this?
> >
> > There's a long thread on this with Subject: Denial Of Service Attack
> > Messages in the archives of this list at
> >
> > and
> >
> > which may be helpful.
> >
>
>
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