[Mimedefang] Will I bounce messages is Mimedefang or Clamd crashes?

[Mark Penkower]

I am using sendmail 8.13.0, Mimedefang 2.39 and clamd / ClamAV version 
0.75.1, clamav-milter version 0.75c.

In some milter configurations, if a milter crashes or does not respond, 
emails are bounced.  I don't want that to be the case with my setup.  If 
Mimedefang or ClamAV crashes or does not respond, I want sendmail to 
process the emails anyway.


Here are my sendmail.cf entries:


Xmimedefang, S=unix:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/mimedefang.sock, T=S:5m;R:5m
Xsample, S=local:/var/run/f1.sock
Xclmilter, S=local:/var/spool/MIMEDefang/clmilter.sock,T=S:4m;R:4m


sample is a milter provided by sendmail that archives messages.


With my setup, if a milter dies, times out, or malfunctions in some other 
way, will sendmail bounce messages or crash?


If so, how can I modify the entries so sendmail will pass the message along 
if one or more of the milters die or stop responding?



Thanks.



Mark Penkower