Re: [exim] exim timing out - help- UPDATE

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Author: Stephen Gran
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exim timing out - help- UPDATE
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 10:37:29AM -0500, jean-paul natola said:
> after cd into it I saw a HUGE message-
>
> rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  7233975 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00000
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail      270 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00001
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  7233422 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00002
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail      135 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00003
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1780193 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00004
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail    53466 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00005
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1264032 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00006
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail      180 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00007
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1640873 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00008
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail    49692 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00009
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1164678 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00010
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail      225 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00011
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1994156 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00012
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail    53972 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00013
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1421914 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00014
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail      270 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00015
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1812449 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00016
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail    53133 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00017
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  1288245 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00018
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail     3645 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok-00019
> -rw-r-----  1 mailnull  mail  7235351 Dec 14 10:10 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok.eml

>
> and sure enough the next entry in my paniclog was
>
> 2006-12-14 10:12:53 1GusBk-0002SX-Ok malware acl condition: clamd: unable
> to read from socket (Operation timed out)


A) upgrade to 0.88.7, and set the mail-recursion to something lower than
the default.
B) Tell exim not to call clamav on large messages.
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