I have just installed ClamAV from Debian testing (version 0.51) and I
have been trying to run some quick tests to see how well clamscan works
with mbox files.

I have an mbox which contains nothing but known viri (klez, bugbear,
elkern, etc.) which I am just trying to scan to see what viruses
clamscan detects from the box.

I issue the following command and get the following error:

moya:/home/sam/work/temp# cat mbox | clamscan --mbox -
ERROR: Can't create /tmp/8dc89243486bdb34/HREF.pif

This error occurs regardless of what the permissions/ownership of /tmp
is, and regardless of whether or not I redirect the temp directory
elsewhere (to another place owned by either the user or clamav):

moya:/home/sam/work/temp# cat mbox | clamscan --mbox \
> --tempdir=/home/tmp2 -
ERROR: Can't create /home/tmp2/deb928656ae12677/HREF.pif

clamscan seems to have already made several files before this one. I'm
assuming it's extracting the files and then scanning them (but I'm just
guessing). But somehow this particular one is stopping it.

Has anyone encountered this before?

I have figured out which particular email is giving clamscan the
problems, in case anyone else wants to try it and see if it makes their
clamscan choke.

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