RE: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-07 Thread nikos
I'll try 25 children. Thank you everyone who answered! Nikos -Original Message- From: Dennis Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 6:11 PM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit nikos wrote: nikos wrote: Yesterday

RE: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread nikos
This is from messeges log file... -Original Message- From: Dennis Peterson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2006 9:10 AM To: ClamAV users ML Subject: Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 08:57:25AM +0300, nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 = 5):

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
nikos wrote: nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 = 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything worked fine.

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread SM
At 12:44 06-09-2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because Are you going to accept,

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Todd Lyons
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread clamav-list
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, SM wrote: At 12:44 06-09-2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread kwijibo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, SM wrote: I agree. MailScanner is totally configurable in this regard, and is normally set to trap known viruses and inform neither sender nor recipient. If a virus is rejected at SMTP time then the sending server is likely to try to deliver

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread clamav-list
On Wed, 6 Sep 2006, Todd Lyons wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 09:44:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because of

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Jan-Pieter Cornet
On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 03:58:10PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: recipient. If a virus is rejected at SMTP time then the sending server is likely to try to deliver that virus to the envelope sender, which is not at all friendly. Better to discard viruses than to

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 6, 2006, at 2:44 PM, Todd Lyons wrote: I do think that there is too much of a danger of denial of service attacks or mail failure due to the milter crashing if you scan your mail during the SMTP phase. I have regularly seen ISPs that can't accept mail because of this problem. I

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread kwijibo
Jan-Pieter Cornet wrote: But helping the virus by allowing it to spread to a secondary target (which most viruses now put in the MAIL From field), isn't good either. I don't think you are really helping it by rejecting an email. There are pretty much two things that can happen. 1 - The sender

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-06 Thread Dennis Peterson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 = 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything

Re: [Clamav-users] hit max-children limit

2006-09-05 Thread Dennis Peterson
nikos wrote: Yesterday seemed that clamav-milter blocked sendmail and we couldn't send any mails. I receive the next message: Sep 4 17:41:36 server clamav-milter[24326]: hit max-children limit (5 = 5): waiting for some to exit After restartarting milter everything worked fine. Can someone