Re: [exim] exim and clam going nuts

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Autor: John Oxley
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A: exim-users
Assumpte: Re: [exim] exim and clam going nuts
On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:55:09PM +0200, Renaud Allard wrote:
> I already had a problem like this on some servers. It seems it was a
> problem with a (purposely?) malformed mime in a message. This caused
> clam to go totally nuts an push the load average to an end (got about
> 5000.0 on a server). Now I reject every message with a "medium" mime
> error, and I never got the same problem again. So it seems to me it's a
> clam problem, not really an exim one.
>
>         drop
>         condition       = ${if > {$mime_anomaly_level}{1}{true}{false}}
>         message         = This message contains a MIME error
> ($mime_anomaly_text)
>         log_message     = MIME Error ($mime_anomaly_text)


Thanks. The problem was that I was checking for mime errors after virus
scanning. The machine has been behaving itself since then.

-John