On Sat, 14 May 2005, Christopher X. Candreva wrote:
May I add that it is really, really, really bad for clamav-milter to refuse to run at all, just because it can't write to it's log file ?
I would much prefer it doing something and not logging then takeing down the whole mail system.
If your whole mail system gets taken down just because clamav-milter died, then perhaps you misconfigured sendmail? Look at the F= option in the line that calls the milter in your sendmail.mc. That determines what action should be taken if the milter can't be contacted:
F=R: reject the mail F=T: tempfail the mail F=: pass it through unscanned
Obviously I always choose the F= option so my mailservers will continue to work in the event of a milter failure. (Email is a service, virus scanning is a feature.) It sounds like you made a different (and IMHO wrong) decision.
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