Vladislav, If you are going to put everything on hold while your AV database reloads, be sure you have appropriate timeout settings for your milter or whatever else is handling things so the email program doesn't timeout waiting for a response from it.
While the *default* timeouts for email chatter are rather high, many administrators do lower those values (in Sendmail, Postfix, Exim, etc) to prevent lingering connections for one reason or another (since most email servers don't close the connection automatically until the client side sends a quit (which many spammers don't), it then falls back to the timeout setting to close).... This page shows both the default and *minimum* (recommended?) values for sendmail, note how some timeouts drop from 1h to 5m... https://sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/op-sh-4.html But also you don't know what the client-side connection settings are that are sending you mail... If you *must* receive the email then and there, then using the patch as talked about before would eliminate any wait times during reloads. Otherwise you might as well just make sure your timeout values are high enough and have everything sit & wait while the DB reloads. Worst case it times out on the client-side and if it's a legit email server it would treat it as a tempfail and retry later. _______________________________________________ clamav-users mailing list clamav-users@lists.clamav.net https://lists.clamav.net/mailman/listinfo/clamav-users Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/contact.html#ml
