Happy to help, Tony.

> On Mar 4, 2017, at 12:42 AM, Tony White <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>   Thank you you are both correct.
> It was indeed clamd causing the issue.
> As to finally upgrading to CentOS 6 or 7 well that is
> not going to happen. 
> 
>   Thanks again.
> 
> best wishes
>   Tony White
> 
> On 4/03/2017 16:00, Sean P. Murphy wrote:
>> Tony,
>> 
>> This is an issue with a signature in the daily clamav database update.  It 
>> affects servers running on CentOS 5 due to the fact that they have a version 
>> of pcre that clamav can't link to properly to form the database.  CentOS 6 
>> and 7 aren't affected.  Supposedly the clamav folks have built a version of 
>> daily that won't break mail delivery, but I don't know for sure.  If you 
>> turn off clamav in simcontrol and recompile qmail cab, then mail delivery 
>> will resume unaffected.  You won't have virus scanning on incoming mail, but 
>> at least delivery will work.
>> 
>> Check the clamav mailing list: lists.clamav.net/pipermail/clamav-users for a 
>> better explanation.
>> 
>> They won't support clamav 99.3 on pre-CentOS 6 installs, so looks like it's 
>> finally time to  
>> upgrade those old servers, eh?
>> 
>> On Mar 3, 2017, at 10:26 PM, Tony White <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi folks,
>>>   This is Tony sorry to have to use a Yahoo acount but my mail server
>>> broke this morning at 8am.
>>>   Submission and SMTP servers are now responding to connections
>>> with this error...
>>> 
>>> qmail-smtpd: qq soft reject (mail server temporarily rejected message 
>>> (#4.3.0))
>>> 
>>> I have made no changes so I am at a loss to the issue. Clamd is at 100% on
>>> a single core might that be the issue?
>>> 
>>> TIA.
>>> 
>>> Tony
> 

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