On Monday 02 May 2005 18:30, jef moskot wrote: > If I do the #24 testvirus test ( http://www.webmail.us/testvirus ), the > mail is delivered properly (which is fine, because there's no virus in > there), but I also get a little file in /var/tmp/clamav-partial named > something like partialmsg####### that doesn't go away. > > Inside the file is the data portion of the mail (I can provide a copy to > anyone interested). > > Is this a minor Clam bug, or is something misconfigured on my side?
> The file and directory appear to be root:wheel. > > I've noticed that a similar thing happens (rarely) when large mail files > are scanned. Sometimes all the compnent parts are left undeleted. Every > few months, I can go in there and remove a couple directories and > everything seems fine. > > I'm running 0.84, using amavis to pass the mail along to clamscan (not > using clamd), using sendmail on FreeBSD 4.X. If you don't want to scan RFC1341 messages, disable PARTIAL_DIR in mbox.c and recompile. You can (usually) safely delete files in that directory more than about 24 hours in age. > Jeffrey Moskot _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-users.html
