Re: [dabo-users] [ADMIN] Mail problems

Author: Paul McNett

Posted: 2009-07-02 at 12:02:30

Ed Leafe wrote:

> Something happened Tuesday night (maybe it was the flip from June to

> July), but the anti-virus program that all mail runs through started

> flagging everything as infected, and so nothing came through at all. I

> have it set to write the mail to a file rather than dump it, so now I

> have the task of sifting through over 2MB of mbox to figure out what

> is good and what isn't. I probably won't get to it until Friday, so if

> you've sent something to the list since yesterday, please re-send it

> if you'd rather not wait for me to find it and re-post it to the list.

Glad to know it wasn't me!

I noticed similar behavior on lists hosted at python.org, too. I host

some lists and they don't appear to have been affected. What anti-virus

are you using? I use clam, controlled by amavisd.

I'm willing to donate an hour or two to the cause of sifting through the

mail file if you want.

Paul

©2009 Paul McNett