Aha! I am using freshclam, link to docs on update_virus_scanners?<br><br>When freshclam fails, things go bad, so I guess that is my issue.<br><br clear="all">Zate<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Julian Field <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk">MailScanner@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 16/06/2009 13:42, Zate Berg wrote:<br>
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This has happened multiple times.<br>
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ClamAV freshclam fails for what ever reason (usually the mirror(s) are down, i use the US mirrors), when this happens, ClamD "hangs" and MailScanner or ClamD identifies the messages sent to ClamD as a Dos and marks them all as a Virus in MailScanner.<br>
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MailScanner should lock out the ClamAV virus scanner while it is being updated if you are using my update_virus_scanners program every hour to do the update. If you are calling freshclam yourself somehow, then I can't help you.<div class="im">
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so, how do I tell MailScanner to NOT quarantine these "DoS" messages, or in fact to just skip scanning and alert me... i really need this to fail open rather than fail closed and mark everything as a virus.<br>
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How are you doing the updates?<br>
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