Hello jacusy,
> this night my clamd-process terminated with an error. The reason was
> that freshclam took too long to do its update, so that clamd could not
> lock the database. So clamd exited. But this behaviour is very fatal
> because the mail system (postfix with amavis) relys on clamd, so if it
> is down, the whole mail traffic is blocked!! Caused of an error while
> updating......
amavisd-new falls back to clamscan by default, if clamd is not available.
Best regards
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