diff -ur amavis-perl-11.orig/amavis/amavis.in amavis-perl-11/amavis/amavis.in
--- amavis-perl-11.orig/amavis/amavis.in	Thu Apr  5 20:22:52 2001
+++ amavis-perl-11/amavis/amavis.in	Thu Aug 30 00:11:19 2001
@@ -580,8 +580,13 @@
 	if ($filetype =~ /tar archive/i) {
 		do_log(4,"Untarring $part");
 
-		my $tar = Archive::Tar->new("$TEMPDIR/parts/$part") ||
-			do_exit($REGERR, __LINE__);
+		# Work around bug in Archive-Tar
+		my $tar = eval { Archive::Tar->new("$TEMPDIR/parts/$part") };
+
+		unless (defined($tar)) {
+			do_log(4,"Faulty archive $part");
+			return 0;
+		}
 
 		my @list = $tar->list_files();