At 11:21 PM 9/2/03, you wrote: >Brian W. Antoine wrote: >>At 11:17 PM 9/2/03, you wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 2003-09-03 at 01:17, Brian W. Antoine wrote: >>> >>>> I'm on a Mandrake 9.1 system using clamav-milter with sendmail and about >>>>once a day I find the following: >>> >>><snip> >>> >>>I had the exact same problems myself, with RH 8.0 and Sendmail, using >>>clamav-milter. I asked a few times about what a solution would be to >>>this, and never got much of a response. It just seems that >>>clamav-milter is not ready for a production server and still needs some >>>work, I guess. > >I'm not sure of the status for clamav-milter, but IIRC it's clamd dying in most >cases, due to problems in the mbox.c code. ALl my clamd problems went away after I >disabled the "ScanMail" option in clamav.conf.
Ok, am I missing something here? Isn't the "ScanMail" option needed because we're trying to scan for viri in incoming mail? >There _are_ big improvements to the mbox.c code in the latest snapshot/in CVS, but >not much people seem to use it. Perhaps it's time to get a "better,but certainly not >bug-free" release out, to get better feedback on the _current_ mbox code. I am. :) >For me, amavisd-new + clamd + spamassassin is running like a charm; in the next days, >I'll set up two load-balanced machines using this setup for a local ISP :-) My setup is one of our secondary mail servers, I'm testing stuff on it before putting it into production. Besides the clamd issue, I really wish milter writers would provide a way to fail more gracefully. Blocking all incoming mail might be an option for an individual user, but an ISP would probably want an option to simply let the mail flow unchecked while a warning was sent to somebody. Waking up to discover that your mail servers have been offline all night and your users are raising hell is not a good way to start a day. Of course the best option would be for the code not to fail in the first place, but ... :) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Clamav-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/clamav-users
