Denial Of Service Attack Messages

[Jerry Benton]

This happens when the scanner times out. You can disable Dangerous Content scanning to eliminate the error.

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com
Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:21, Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com> wrote:
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> Yes.  I recently upgraded to 4.86.1-1 and the install log shows:
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> HTML::Parser => OK
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>> On 03/07/2016 10:19 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
>> is the HTML parser installed?
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>> Jerry Benton
>> www.mailborder.com
>> Sent from my iPhone
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>> On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:25, Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com> wrote:
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>>> 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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