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
