Quoting Marc Haber:

> Same thing happens when clamav is reloading its virus databases after
> an upgrade. No big deal, but annoying, since the panic log gets these
> messages and log checking mechanisms are going to fire.
> 
> I'd like exim to behave a little more tolerant here.

It probably should, but clamav could also be more nice here. A clamav
client cannot know that clamd will be back in a sec. Exim could retry
after some seconds (how many seconds and how often?). That will delay
all mail when clamd is really down, but that shouldn't be a problem for
smtp.


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