On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote:

> On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote:
> >
> > Yes, I guess one cant legislate sanity, can one :(
> > But spamassassin and clamav should default to tempfail !
> >
> > ...still cant believe that
> > people aren't recommending a safe, by default setup.
>
> We are.  ;)  For most mailserver admins, the danger of losing our jobs
> is much greater if we tempfail all incoming mail due to a clamav crash
> than is the danger of losing our jobs due to a couple of viruses leaking
> through.  Where email is concerned, message delivery is critical.
> Virus and spam filtering are features.

Ah, what's the problem with tempfail ?  This isn't a 5xx rejection -
the mail will be retried (unless of course, your milter is down longer
than the remote hosts retry interval*tries)...

-- 
Rick Nelson
Life'll kill ya                         -- Warren Zevon
Then you'll be dead                     -- Life'll kill ya



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