[clamav-users] Now i know what is the problem!

Noel Jones njones at megan.vbhcs.org
Sat May 6 21:07:56 UTC 2023


> On May 6, 2023, at 11:14 AM, newcomer01 via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net> wrote:
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> For whatever reason, this happens when a mail is only a few kb in size but has absolutely no content, I opened the affected mail with every text editor, and it was empty in all of them.
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This needs further explanation. A file that’s a few kb can’t also be empty. Please provide the file somewhere - pastebin or such. 


> Why this mail is empty from yesterday to today I don't know.

This suggests a file system or disk problem. What is the file system?

Maybe clamscan is hung waiting on broken disk io 

Clamav, nor anything, can be expected to work normally and reliably if there are underlying system problems. 


  — Noel Jones


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