[Mimedefang] some question about the reliability of incoming email.

[Marco Berizzi]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Cahya Wirawan" <cwirawan at email.archlab.tuwien.ac.at>
To: <mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com>
Sent: Monday, September 23, 2002 6:27 PM
Subject: [Mimedefang] some question about the reliability of incoming
email.


> Hi,
>   I have tested this mimedefang (with spammassassin), and it works
very good,
> but before I put this software in production , I want first to know if
it is
> possible that the incoming email could be lost in mimedefang server
> (my sendmail and mimedefang use its own machine) if there is any
problem
> with the mimedefang server.
>   Also what will happend if the mimedefang server crashes when
mimedafang is
> during processing of emails? or if the network between mimedefang and
sendmail
> server is down, I setup sendmail to send the email to the recipient
without
> filtering with mimedefang if mimedefang server is unreachable, but how
about
> the emails that are already in mimedefang server?
>   I think if the mimedafang server is under very high load avg ( > 12)
,
> sendmail will get a message from mimedefang that the mail client has
to try
> again to send email later, how do I tell mimedefang that it should
send
> message to sendmail just to process the email from client and send it
to the
> recipient? or if there is any syntax error in my mimedefang
configuration,

mimedefang.pl -f /etc/mail/mimedefang-filter -test

> sendmail will reject all incoming email , how do I  tell sendmail not
to
> reject the email, but just send it to recipient without mimedefang
filtering?

AFAIK you cannot tell sendmail to bypass the filter.
You can only choose between R (reject conn if filter unavailable), or T
(temp fail conn if filter unavailable) which is that suggested by MD
documentation.