On Wed, 2004-05-19 at 20:15, Alexander Dalloz wrote: > Am Mi, den 19.05.2004 schrieb Chris Kloiber um 13:29: > > > > May 19 17:37:08 harry sendmail[3820]: i4J7b7u0003820: SYSERR(root): out > > > of memory: Cannot allocate memory > > > > > > Phil > > > > Sounds like a good default behavior to me. If you really want to enable > > it, look in /etc/sysconfig/clamav-milter and get rid of the --quiet > > flag. Remember that alot of virus' use faked From: addresses so > > notifying the 'sender' is a useless thing, and in most cases generates > > spam. I haven't used Windows to send email in years, yet I get several > > "Norton AV found: <foo!> in an email from you..." almost daily from > > people that I do not know. > > > > Chris Kloiber > > Chris, > > that was my very first thought too. Since a long time those notification > mails make no sense any more. At least the OP seems to not notify the > potential sender about sending a virus mail, does he mix recipient and > sender? I do not see a switch to decide whether the recipient should get > a notification or not. I only see the --bounce option which is certainly > nasty for the reasons you spoke Chris about. The default behaviour > (without explicit overriding switches) is to send an SMTP code 550 to > the sender MTA if a virus/worm is detected by clamd. That should be > sufficient in the very most cases. > > Despite that, the behaviour of clamav / clamav-milter (?) looks not > correct to me, when it exits with such an error message in the log. Like > for the OP on my FC1 mail host Sendmail and clamav-milter are working > without any problems. So what may cause the error on FC2? From the > fedora.us bugzilla entry I do not see an explanation. > > Alexander DoH!, I didn't even look at the error message. Time to upgrade clamav I think. I was getting those, and an upgrade to 0.70 fixed it (for me, for now). -- Chris Kloiber
