On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 13:20 -0500, Mark Hennessy wrote:
> Dec 29 12:56:58 host /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[89023]: (89023-01)
> (!)do_uncompress: Error running decompressor /usr/bin/gzip -d on p001, exit 1
> at (eval 68) line 562.
> Dec 29 12:57:14 host /usr/local/sbin/amavisd[89023]: (89023-01) (!)Decoding
> of p006 (ASCII text, with very long lines) failed, leaving it unpacked:
> do_ascii: timed out

Do you have enough space on your /tmp partition?

> What is advised to be done to prevent a mail server from being brought to its
> knees by something like this?

I would set amavisd-new not to scan files that big, if all else fails.
I'm not sure if we can set amavisd-new to have limits for the size of
attachments as opposed to the size of the mail.   Either ways, virus
mails sent by infected machines will never be that big.

Hans

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