> I thoutht I was chasing a strange bug until I found a pattern in the way 
> Amavis changes take effect.  In my tests, most changes require a restart of 
> Amavis.  This seems quite odd in that the change is in the policyd database.  
> The follwoing table illistrates this behaviour:
>
> Amavis                bypass_         Virus is
> Restarted     virus_checks    Checked
>
> Yes           Inherit         Yes     (checks enabled by default)
>               Yes             Yes     (should not check for virus)
> Yes                           No      (restart fixed it)
>               Inherit         Yes     (no restart needed in this case)
>               Yes             Yes     (should not check for virus)
> Yes                           No      (restart fixed it)
>               Inherit         Yes     (no restart needed in this case)
>               Yes             Yes     (should not check for virus)
> Yes                           No      (restart fixed it)
>               No              No      (should have checked for virus)
>               Inherit         No      (should have checked for virus)
> Yes                           Yes     (restart fixed it)
>
>   
This makes very little sense .... policyd overwrites the policy bank
every time amavisd processes a message.

I'll need to try reproduce this.


> I have only checked one setting.  Under what circumstances is an Amavis 
> restart needed?
>   
It shouldn't be needed at all.

Regards
Nigel

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