[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm using MailScanner / SpamAssassin / Sendmail /ClamAV .09.3 > > This weekend my MailScanner started acting up. I?ve gone through > everything that I could think of and I ran into a lot of brick walls > along the way. In the end I?ve got the problem narrowed down to > clamav. > > If I disable clamav in the MailScanner.conf, the system works as > normal. If I enable ClamAV it will slow down to a crawl and every > message gets marked as a virus. This is because the virus scanner is > timing out. My timeout is set for the default 5 mins so there is no > way that every single email should be timing out. The MailScanner > maillog shows the following:
Yes, I've been in this situation recently: all virusscans timeout causing it to mark virtually everything as a virus. What I did was switch to clamd(scan) and the problem was no more. If you don't want to run another daemon then you could also use the clamavmodule but I didn't go there. Grts, Rob _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
