Topic: CLAMD choking on emails with attachments

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

I had a similar issue with outlook, by default I now set outlook server timeout to 3 minutes, under advanced settings.

this is one thing, as clamd will need to download the whole file and then scan it and finally give a result, it could take time when file are larger


also to avoid delay because of 24 update daily you can do this

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# config setprop clamav Checks 2
# service freshclam restart
where it will only update the db twice daily.

the default from clamav is 12, SME default is 24, i.e. once hourly at least + multiple tries if it fails.