Denial Of Service Attack Messages

Steven Jardine steve at mjnservices.com
Mon Mar 7 17:21:54 UTC 2016


Yes.  I recently upgraded to 4.86.1-1 and the install log shows:

HTML::Parser => OK


On 03/07/2016 10:19 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> is the HTML parser installed?
>
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> Jerry Benton
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> On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:25, Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com 
> <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>> wrote:
>
>> I upgraded MailScanner several months ago to v4.85.2-3 and now 
>> v4.86.1-1. Often I am getting the error message:
>>
>>     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/20499/u27Em5eK000564/nmsg-20499-47.html
>>
>> The file reported in the attack is not there so I am unable to to any 
>> troubleshooting.
>>
>> I am using a OpenVZ container with Ubuntu 14.04 - 6 CPUs and 12GB 
>> RAM. The messages are causing problems with valid mail messages both 
>> incoming and outgoing.
>>
>> Is there a way to disable this feature?  Any ideas on how to suppress 
>> these messages?
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Steve
>>
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