clamassassin with call to clamav software corrupts mail

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 09:28, Jeff Vian wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 16:46 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote:
> > I found out that clamassassin does not cause duplicate mail messages because
> > even if I commented out the .procmailrc rule I still experienced the
> > duplicate mail messages. I have since updated clamassassin to version 2.2 and 
> > have modified my .procmailrc rules to reflect Alexander Dolloz
> > suggestions. I found out that the duplicate mail generation occurs if I
> > leave fetchmail running for an hour or more. I don't know why. I find if
> > I stop fetchmail after a lull in receiving messages that I don't experience
> > the duplicate mail messages. I am puzzled by this. I will once more show you
> > 
> 
> I leave fetchmail running constantly, but it runs in daemon mode.
> When it completes a download it then deletes the downloaded messages
> from the server, then waits and restarts a new session.

> Try running fetchmail in daemon mode 

You can also try the -b <N> parameter. It will break down comminication
after <N> messages downloaded and delete the messages on the server.
This way, you can pinpoint the problem message


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