kevin, that simply means, that the attachement, which you received with your server, had another encoding. ok, had you tried to reproduce this phenomena again, with the same attachement sent?
it depends on the senders email-program, how those attached files get encoded for sending via internet. there're a dozen different encodings used over the net. mine liked to choke an octet-stream encoded attachements. can't say if base64 would cause trouble. i would like to test this, so if your file doesn't contain confidental data, please sent it to my email adress. i'll report back, if clamd goes to nirvana. oliver Am 30.07.2007 um 17:45 schrieb Kevin Windham: > > On Jul 30, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Oliver Schwarz wrote: > >> kevin, >> >> i ran into the same problem with clamd, but was able to dig a bit >> deeper and figuring out, that as soon as an attachement was encoded >> in octet-stream clamd would run nuts. the logs showed it crashed, but >> the process was still alive – just freaking out and using slowly all >> available cpu-cycles until nothing was left. the kernel process was >> getting a bit stressed and used around 30% (DC 1.66 here) and clamd >> the rest. >> >> please just look into your logs and report back, if these >> attachements were sent encoded in octet-stream. > > The attachments in the email were encoded in base64. I grep'd the > logs for amavis and didn't find anything that said octet, so I'm not > really sure if that answers the question or not. I also tried upping > the logging in clamd.conf, but the best I could get was pass/fail > messages. No additional details show up in the clam log. Maybe there > is some option I am missing. LogVerbose was set to yes. > > Kevin > _______________________________________________ > Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http:// > wiki.clamav.net > http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html > _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: visit http://wiki.clamav.net http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
