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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>This issue only happens to me when my server is over loaded. Once I gave it more CPU’s and RAM I’ve not had this problem again.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I find that running spamassassin as daemon and restarting that sometimes helps. The –U switch didn’t do anything for me. I’m using FreeBSD.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>You should look at installing fail2ban or RBL’s on the MTA and check the server loan / swap information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I do have a lot of mail coming my way, so I might be way off the mark here..<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Rich<br><br></span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#A6A6A6'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info [mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Ritchie P. Fraser<br><b>Sent:</b> 14 August 2013 09:17<br><b>To:</b> MailScanner discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner {Scanned}<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>At the end of the first line in /usr/sbin/MailScanner… like so…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>#!/usr/bin/perl -I/usr/lib/MailScanner -U<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Ritchie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> <a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a> [<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info">mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin Hepworth<br><b>Sent:</b> 13 August 2013 19:38<br><b>To:</b> MailScanner discussion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner {Scanned}<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>You need to put the -U at the first line on the MailScanner perl script<br><br>On Tuesday, 13 August 2013, Jonathan Horne wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>hmmm, its only some emails, not all of them (and its always emails that i would never accept anyway, high scoring spam). <br> <br>taking a look at hte mailscanner.conf file, i dont see offhand where to add a -U. any tips?<br> <br>jonathan<br> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><hr size=2 width="100%" align=center></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:06:50 +0100<br>Subject: Re: emails that attempt to kill mailscanner<br>From: <a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'maxsec@gmail.com');" target="_blank">maxsec@gmail.com</a><br>To: <a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info');" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>this problem is normally caused by config issues, like not having the -U switch set in the main MailScanner executable.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>Martin Hepworth, CISSP<br>Oxford, UK<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 13 August 2013 16:28, Jonathan Horne <<a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'jonathanmhorne@outlook.com');" target="_blank">jonathanmhorne@outlook.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>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> <br>thanks,<br>jonathan<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>--<br>MailScanner mailing list<br><a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info');" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a><br><a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner" target="_blank">http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner</a><br><br>Before posting, read <a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting</a><br><br>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><br>-- MailScanner mailing list <a href="javascript:_e(%7b%7d,%20'cvml',%20'mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info');" target="_blank">mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info</a> <a href="http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner" target="_blank">http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner</a> Before posting, read <a href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting" target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting</a> Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website!<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>-- <br>-- <br>Martin Hepworth, CISSP<br>Oxford, UK<br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and <br>dangerous content by <a href="http://www.mailscanner.info/"><b>MailScanner</b></a>, and is <br>believed to be clean. <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>