On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 02:41:40PM +0000, Sharma, Ashish wrote: > Hello, > > I am running my postfix with 3 mail filters and 2 content filters (actually > one of the content filter (amavisd) is piping it's output to the other). > > My question here is how can I make sure to make my setup robust in the sense > that if one of the mail filter or content filter crashes then it could be > bypassed by postfix and the system recovers from that state too. > > Is bypassing of filters (mail filter and content filter) possible? > > Thanks in advance > Ashish Sharma > One approach that can be used is to use monitoring to determine the "health" of the filters. Then you can restart them or update the postfix configuration to adjust for problems dynamically.
Cheers, Ken