Kevin Coyner said: > > I've recently installed and configured amavis-postfix and essentially have > it working as it does catch viruses and lets the good mail go through. > > However, for every email that comes through, it is creating a log file in > the form of a directory called 'amavis-2002....." with contents > 'email.txt' and sub-directory 'parts'. For example:
this is normal. however the directories should be automatically removed after the mail is processed. they are required so that amavis can extract the message, decode it and scan it. Once the message is processed the directories are removed. If they are NOT removed I can only thing of 3 reasons: 1) there is a message loop in the system. this in my experience is caused by a malformed message which fails to decode properly. Usually a bug in the uuencode perl module. check the mail queue for such a message 2) lack of permissions on the directory/tree so amavis is unable to remove the directories itself. 3) bug(possibly in the package not amavis itself). I've run amavis on several systems, but always compiled from source, have never tried the debian package of it. if you recieve a ton of email and or it takes a long time to process each email you will probably always see a amavis directory there, usually with different numbers tagged on the end, if this is what your talking about, theres nothing you can do unless you want to stop scanning messages. Amavis is far more reliable then a scanner by itself since it handles all the decodings and extractings on it's own rather then depend upon whatever methods the scanner has(if any) to do it. good luck nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
