HTML disarming died, status = 13

[admin]

Good Morning,

Yes, I have had this issue for some time now.  I could not figure out 
what was the cause.  I am trying your suggested fix for the problem, as 
I have been stumped.

On 01/21/19 6:40 AM, Peter Farrow wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> Having upgraded my ancient MailScanner installation on Centos 5, to 
> running on Ubuntu 18.04 with Sendmail, I have encountered this problem.
>
> It seems the HTML Parser times out, which leads MailScanner to strip 
> the HTML part of emails out and send a message saying
>
> "MailScanner was attacked by a Denial Of Service attack, and has 
> therefore deleted this part of the message."
>
> Typically this was caused by Winmail.dat files and TNEF attachedments, 
> but I don't scan those to get round that issue.
>
> In this case a simple HTML message caused it, and looking through the 
> logs this happens a lot, but only sometimes does Mailscanner "bin the 
> html part" and send the warning.
>
>
> Having done some googling and testing it seems the HTML Parser 
> timesout waiting for Spamassassin or something like that.
>
> So I increased the timeout for Spamassin from 75 seconds to 300 
> seconds just to see if this has an effect, in ConfigDefs.pl under 
> /usr/share/MailScanner...
>
> Has anyone else seen this?
>
> Pete
>
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> This message has been scanned for viruses and
> dangerous content by *MailScanner* <http://www.mailscanner.info/>, and is
> believed to be clean.
>
> Thanks,
Admin
T System 3, Inc

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