You need to adjust your timeouts so that your clamav timeout is sooner than the amavis timeout, etc.
I believe there is also a max-file-size option in clamav which would help you. On Apr 2, 2008, at 4:33 AM, Hanne Moa wrote: > We've been plagued by a very large (1.7 GB) bounce lately and wondered > if newer amavisd-news are smarter about this: > > Basically what happens is: postfix hands mail over to amavis who hands > it over to clamav. Clamav spends so much time attempting to scan the > file that postfix times out, gives up and puts the offending mail in > deferred. The copy of the mail hangs around in various tmp-directories > instead of being deleted. Then postfix tries again. Clamav takes too > much time, postfix times out, gives up, and now there are *two* copies > of the mail in various tmp-directories. Repeat until disk full. Then > the flow of mail stops and the flow of phonecalls begin. > > The workaround is to shut down amavis, clamav, postfix, delete > (postsuper -d) the offending mail, hunt down and delete the copies in > the various tmp-directories, turning everything back on and cross > fingers. An elegant fix would be for postfix to say "no way will I be > able to deliver this" and shunt it into the hold-queue for the > postmaster to deal with. What amavis and friends need to do is > discover somehow when this happens, and break the loop (and clean up > the messages that postfix gives up on). > > I'll eventually be upgrading anyway but a solution for the above > problem might speed up things. > > > HM > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > --- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/ > marketplace > _______________________________________________ > AMaViS-user mailing list > AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user > AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 > AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/ -- Jo Rhett Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source and other randomness ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
