Le Dimanche 13 Mars 2005 22:50, David F. Skoll a �crit : > On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Steve Sizemore wrote: > > > However, I still don't understand how this failure can shut down > > mimedefang altogether. > > If there's any weirdness with the virus scanner, then by default, > MIMEDefang tempfails the mail rather than taking a chance and letting > it through. > > > In case it wasn't clear, when these failure periods happened, all > > incoming and outgoing mail was deferred (temp fail), not just some > > messages which presumably triggered this bad behavior by uvscan. > > Then that sounds like a resource-starvation issue. Maybe the load on the > box was high, or memory was low, or uvscan was in the middle of doing some > periodic operation like signature updates.
I second this hypothesis, it happens here. I have the case too, of course, every time NAI shoots its foot with emergency updates, which means any old time. I would check too that you have the last engine (guess 4.4.40) for I had real trouble some time ago with new signatures aggregation only compatible with last engine. > You'd best ask NAI what it > could mean. Well, good luck with asking something not commershil to NAI, for answers on technical issues they are as active as a dead bat. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [email protected] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
