[Avcheck] Re: avpcheck breeds messages

Ralf Hildebrandt Ralf.Hildebrandt@innominate.com
Tue, 14 Aug 2001 09:47:47 +0200 (CEST)


[This message has also been posted.]
On 14 Aug 2001 05:39:41 +0200, Vadim Shamray <vader@opsb.ru> wrote:
> I have got a problem.

There's this gereat little avpcheck list at
avcheck@list.innominate.org :)

> postfix-20010228.2 from ports
> avpcheck marked "Wed Jul 25 2001 Michael Tokarev"
>                 "Wed Jul 11 2001 Ralf Hildebrandt"
> avp for freebsd 3.0 build 135.2 enabled/registered/licensed/other stuff
> 
> changes in master.cf: 
> smtp      inet  n       -       n       -       -       smtpd -o content_filter=filter:dummy

filter:dummy?  I use just filter

> [...]
> filter    unix  -       n       n       -       40      pipe
>     user=avpc argv=/usr/local/AVP/avpcheck -l -b -a virusalertraw -d /var/spool/avp/filter -s /var/spool/avp/control/AvpCtl -S/usr/sbin/sendmail -f $sender -- $recipient
> 
> 
> whole system working almost nicely, mail passing, viruses not, but.
> on merely 5% of incoming mail, avpcheck fails with next line in maillog:
> 
> Aug 10 02:56:03 somehost postfix/pipe[1240]: DEB8ED90B3: to=<someuser@opsb.ru>, relay=filter, delay=209509, status=deferred (temporary failure. Command output: avpcheck: unable to write mail stream: Broken pipe )
> 
> mail remains in queue, postfix+avpcheck continues to generate such a message.
> after some time someuser gets about 50 copies of message in his box.


I think you should try a recent version of both avpcheck and
AVPdaemon.Cc: to the list.

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