We use an amavisd/SA/clamav setup for our production mail server and are very happy with it. Recently however we experienced delivery delays and large mail queues. When examining the reason we found that mails containing PPT files brought the mail system to a crawl. One example was a 7 MB file which took several hours to scan. I submitted the file to clamav by hand, leaving the temps and found that it was expanded to 650 BMytes !! Apparently (there is a discussion on the clamav list) PPT is an archive format that can explod to very large file structures.
Is there a way to limit the size of powerpoint files being virus scanned from amavisd? Doas anybody else observer tihs behavior ? What are you doing about it ?? Jakob Curdes ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
