Denial Of Service Attack Messages

[Steven Jardine]

What would cause a timeout?  My system is fairly new.  I would like to 
determine the reason for the problem rather than just disable the scan.  
Any ideas?

On 03/07/2016 10:57 AM, Jerry Benton wrote:
> This happens when the scanner times out. You can disable Dangerous 
> Content scanning to eliminate the error.
>
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> Jerry Benton
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> On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:21, Steven Jardine <steve at mjnservices.com 
> <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>> wrote:
>
>> 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> 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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