On 24 Mar 2021, at 12:14, G.W. Haywood via clamav-users <clamav-users@lists.clamav.net> wrote:

Hi there,

On Wed, 24 Mar 2021, Ben Stuyts wrote:

... File ‘a’ is a 4.1 GB mbox file. ...

Then don't scan it:

https://marc.info/?l=clamav-users&m=157549176313237&w=2

Possible, but not the first thing that comes to my mind with email folders.

But thanks for the link, it sheds some light on the underlying problem.

Ben