Denial Of Service Attack Messages

[Jerry Benton]

Just so everyone knows, 4.86.1 is not released. It is beta. It looks like I need to go back through the changes made between the two versions unless someone is seeing this in 4.85.2-3.

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Mar 7, 2016, at 12:21 PM, 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
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>> On Mar 7, 2016, at 11:25, Steven Jardine < <mailto:steve at mjnservices.com>steve at mjnservices.com <mailto: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:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 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.
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>>> Is there a way to disable this feature?  Any ideas on how to suppress these messages?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> Steve
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