Darhl, > then I emptied /var/lib/amavis/db/ and restarted it and it's working! > > I was doing some more googling on it and ran across this which suggested > the same fix as you to remove the db's and restart so that's where I was > heading when I saw your reply.
More thorough purging of a database directory after an unclean shutdown was implemented in a later version of amavisd-new, your 2.6.1 is now three years old. Mark
