I, too, have been getting hourly emails. I have tried the workaround several times and am still getting emails.
Here is the output from command line:
[root@provue-server ~]# freshclam -v
Current working dir is /var/clamav
Max retries == 6
ClamAV update process started at Sun Mar 10 15:54:08 2013
Using IPv6 aware code
Querying current.cvd.clamav.net
TTL: 844
Software version from DNS: 0.97.6
main.cvd version from DNS: 54
main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
daily.cvd version from DNS: 16825
daily.cvd is up to date (version: 16825, sigs: 915586, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
bytecode.cvd version from DNS: 214
bytecode.cvd is up to date (version: 214, sigs: 41, f-level: 63, builder: neo)
[root@provue-server ~]#
All seems well, however, I got this email shortly after:
2013-03-10 16:18:39.149484500 ClamAV update process started at Sun Mar 10 16:18:39 2013
2013-03-10 16:18:39.149914500 main.cvd is up to date (version: 54, sigs: 1044387, f-level: 60, builder: sven)
2013-03-10 16:18:40.130638500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.131407500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.132159500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.132899500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.133645500 WARNING: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.134402500 ERROR: getpatch: Can't download daily-16682.cdiff from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.169794500 WARNING: Incremental update failed, trying to download daily.cvd
2013-03-10 16:18:40.170672500 ERROR: Can't download daily.cvd from database.clamav.net
2013-03-10 16:18:40.170836500 Giving up on database.clamav.net...
2013-03-10 16:18:40.170857500 Update failed. Your network may be down or none of the mirrors listed in /etc/freshclam.conf is working. Check
http://www.clamav.net/support/mirror-problem for possible reasons.
I am wondering if I have another problem. My server is 8.0, fully updated. Any suggestions?