You need to put the -U at the first line on the MailScanner perl script<span></span><br><br>On Tuesday, 13 August 2013, Jonathan Horne wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div><div dir="ltr">hmmm, its only some emails, not all of them (and its always emails that i would never accept anyway, high scoring spam). <br>
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taking a look at hte mailscanner.conf file, i dont see offhand where to add a -U. any tips?<br>
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jonathan<br> <br>
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Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:06:50 +0100<br>Subject: Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner<br>From: <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'maxsec@gmail.com');" target="_blank">maxsec@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info');" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br>
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<div dir="ltr">this problem is normally caused by config issues, like not having the -U switch set in the main MailScanner executable.<br></div>
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<div>-- <br>Martin Hepworth, CISSP<br>Oxford, UK</div><br><br>
<div>On 13 August 2013 16:28, Jonathan Horne <span dir="ltr"><<a href="javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'jonathanmhorne@outlook.com');" target="_blank">jonathanmhorne@outlook.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">i didnt try it yet... but if i set the number of attempts to 0 what will happen? i would like to just delete these emails immeidately, i dont see a need to retry it after 5 minutes.<br> <br>if 0 is not the right way to accomplish this, what is the correct way to dump emails that attempt to kill the process?<br>
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</blockquote><br><br>-- <br>-- <br>Martin Hepworth, CISSP<br>Oxford, UK<br>