Skip clamd scanning when daemon did not respond

[Noel Jones]

On 10/11/2011 2:14 AM, david touzeau wrote:
> Dear
> 
> sometimes the clamd daemon is overloaded and did not respond.
> In this case, amavisd did not want to handle mails and return error to
> postfix.
> 
> Is there any option to force amavis skipping antivirus processing when
> the antivirus engine is down or did not respond in time ?
> 
> 
> 
> 


In your amavisd.conf file, find the section for @av_scanners_backup
and uncomment the always-clean entry (or add if it's not there)

# always succeeds (uncomment to consider mail clean if all other
scanners fail)
 ['always-clean', sub {0}],




  -- Noel Jones