Dear Patrick Ben Koetter, I will suggest Virtualmin developers to use clamdscan instead of clamscan. Looks like a re-design of Virtualmin in how it uses ClamAV to scan email messages is required.
Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individuals in Singapore GIMP = Government-Induced Medical Problems 3rd March 2025 Monday On Monday, March 3rd, 2025 at 10:55 PM, Patrick Ben Koetter via Postfix-users <[email protected]> wrote: > * Mark via Postfix-users [email protected]: > > > Disable clamav completely, restart your server and try it like that, > > for a few days. > > > Nope! > > I don't see any reason to disable ClamAV completely. What I would definitely > would to is not use the command line scanner utility clamscan to scan > messages for malware. This will consume many resources any I suspect this to > be the culprit without even looking any further. We know from the amavis > mailing list and our own experience you do not want to use commandline > utilities to scan messages. > > What you want is a running daemonized process that scans messages. In other > words use clamd instead of clamscan (or even clamdscan) and hook clamd into > the message delivery process using either clamav-milter, rspamd or amavis. > > > ClamAV is a RAM killer! > > > That's an incorrect generalization. ClamAV runs on many machines - be it bare > metal or VM - without any problems. The problem here very likely is using the > commandline scanner instead of the daemonized process. > > p@rick > > -- > [*] sys4 AG > > https://sys4.de, +49 (89) 30 90 46 64 > Schleißheimer Straße 26/MG,80333 München > > Sitz der Gesellschaft: München, Amtsgericht München: HRB 199263 > Vorstand: Patrick Ben Koetter, Marc Schiffbauer > Aufsichtsratsvorsitzender: Florian Kirstein > > _______________________________________________ > Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Postfix-users mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
