Something keeps deleting /var/amavis/tmp

For some strange reason the spam/av scanner keeps stopping because the directory /var/amavis/tmp keeps being deleted by something. The problem is then that all the mail gets stuck in a queue waiting to be scanned.
Does anyone know what might be deleting the /var/amavis/tmp directory ?

I have answered this question myself.
Do NOT be tempted to enable ‘noatime’. It is usual for OSX filesystems to record the ‘last access’ time of every file. This means that every time a file is read, a write is made on the filesystem to record this action. If like me you are running your OSX server install on an SSD (Solid State Disk) then you might be tempted to torn off the recording of access times in order to reduce unnecessary writes to the SSD by enabling noatime. This seems to work fine in every respect EXCEPT it seems amavis uses the last accessed time stamp and deletes the directory /var/amavis/tmp when it can not see the updated time.
Why it should do this I have no idea as it seems a ridiculous thing to do but for the time being the advice is don't use noatime if you have mail services with running with Anti-Spam or Anti-Virus scanning running. Unless someone can tell me what script is doing this so I can modify it.

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