Dear Patrick Ben Koetter,

I will suggest Virtualmin developers to use clamdscan instead of clamscan. 
Looks like a re-design of Virtualmin in how it uses ClamAV to scan email 
messages is required.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individuals in Singapore
GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems
3rd March 2025 Monday






On Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 10:55 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter via Postfix-users 
<postfix-users@postfix.org> wrote:

> * Mark via Postfix-users markbsdmail2...@gmail.com:
> 
> > Disable clamav completely, restart your server and try it like that,
> > for a few days.
> 
> 
> Nope!
> 
> I don't see any reason to disable ClamAV completely. What I would definitely
> would to is not use the command line scanner utility clamscan to scan
> messages for malware. This will consume many resources any I suspect this to
> be the culprit without even looking any further. We know from the amavis
> mailing list and our own experience you do not want to use commandline
> utilities to scan messages.
> 
> What you want is a running daemonized process that scans messages. In other
> words use clamd instead of clamscan (or even clamdscan) and hook clamd into
> the message delivery process using either clamav-milter, rspamd or amavis.
> 
> > ClamAV is a RAM killer!
> 
> 
> That's an incorrect generalization. ClamAV runs on many machines - be it bare
> metal or VM - without any problems. The problem here very likely is using the
> commandline scanner instead of the daemonized process.
> 
> p@rick
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