Maximum Processing Attempts

[Jerry Benton]

It gets quarantined. 

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Jerry Benton
www.mailborder.com



> On Mar 17, 2016, at 9:47 AM, Peter Lemieux <mailscanner at replies.cyways.com> wrote:
> 
> Can someone elaborate on the implications of changing this setting?  We've gotten a couple of complex malware messages that apparently crash the scanner.  We had this set to 6 (I don't know what the default is), so the message would be rescanned and crash the scanner again.  Meanwhile throughput came to a halt.
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> If I set this to zero, what happens to the malformed message?  Does it get delivered to the recipient (bad idea in this case)?  Thrown away? Quarantined?  The MailScanner.conf file doesn't address these questions.
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> Peter
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> 
> On 03/14/2016 06:48 AM, Andrew Southgate wrote:
>> *Maximum Processing Attempts = 0*
> 
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