[Mimedefang] Automatic tempfail recovery

[Aaron Paetznick]

We have been experiencing random tempfails with MIMEDefang.  We're 
running MD v2.37 with SpamAssassin v2.55, Sendmail v8.12.9, and Perl 
v5.8.0 on Linux.  Here are the errors we get:

Sep  8 07:26:22 zeus sendmail[24777]: h88CQMUL024777: Milter 
(mimedefang): local socket name 
/usr/local/mail/MIMEDefang/spool/mimedefang.sock unsafe
Sep  8 07:26:22 zeus sendmail[24777]: h88CQMUL024777: Milter 
(mimedefang): to error state
Sep  8 07:26:22 zeus sendmail[24777]: h88CQMUL024777: Milter: 
initialization failed, temp failing commands


...Whenever these tempfails happens, which is not too often but it does 
happen, a simple restart of MIMEDefang fixes it.  I'd really like to 
figure out why they're happening and make them stop, but thats not the 
point of this email.

Would it be possible to have MIMEDefang check for a tempfail state and 
attempt to restart itself every configurable period of time?  I would 
have it default to checking once every 3 minutes or so.  Opinions?


--Aaron