On Mon, 26 Apr 2010, Wietse Venema wrote:
You have an SMTP-based filter that takes two minutes to process a 5MB message. See my logfile analysis of a few days ago. This causes the sender (into the filter) to time out. As per the
If it helps any, I recently ran into a sudden increase in filtering time (and the resulting repeating mails) as a result of a CLAMAV update.
I discovered that my script was using 'clamscan' rather than 'clamdscan' (with the 'd' to use the clamd daemon). I started using clamdscan and processing time dropped back down to the appropriate 10-20 seconds.
- Charles