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> Obviously, not having new signatures and just keep running along is
> not good, though notifying the admin would be nice in that case -
> killing all mail traffic on a mailserver because amavis can't start
> clam, or not even queueing mail in case of using it as an smtp
> pipeline, is not terribly nice as well.
> 

The Debian security advisory has been sent out about half a year ago. DSAs
should hopefully reach a majority of our users - there is simply no one true way
to notify the admin!

> I had lenny boxes running without volatile indeed - do new installs
> automatically have volatile as sources? I suspect most people don't
> - especially not the ones upgrading from previous debian releases.
> 

No, volatile is not enabled by default. In future Debian releases, however, we
are likely to distribute clamav *only* via volatile.

Best,
Michael

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