Delayed delivery of local mail

[Vinayakam Murugan]

Thanks for the response, Martin.

This same configuration is running fine at many of my clients places.
I would like to get to the root of the problem and then decide to
upgrade or not.


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 09:20:14 +0100, Martin Hepworth
<martinh at solid-state-logic.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> you might want to try upgrading ClamAV to the latest stable release. I
> know that 0.60 is not supported  anymore as the DB format has changed
> and I'm not when the new format was introduced.
>
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
> Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300
>
>
>
>
> Vinayakam Murugan wrote:
> > Hello guys
> >
> > We are running a RH 9 system with MailScanner 4.29.3 along with
> > sendmail & clamscan 0.67. We have not enabled SpamAssassin.
> >
> > Of late we have been intermittenly facing problems of delayed delivery
> > of local mail. There have been instances of mails getting delayed by
> > around 10- 16 hours.
> >
> > We checked the maillog and found many entries like
> >
> > Command stream end of file while reading line user=???
> >
> > Commercial scanner clamav timed out
> >
> > Virus Scanning: Denial of service attack is in message
> >
> >
> > Does this tell me something i am not getting?
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Warm Regards
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Vinayak
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Warm Regards
~~~~~~~~~~~~
Vinayak

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