[Mimedefang] Start order for sendmail, MD and Clam
Kelson
kelson at speed.net
Tue Jun 7 14:17:37 EDT 2005
alan premselaar wrote:
> CLAMD
> MIMEDefang
> Sendmail
>
> considering the logic that MIMEDefang makes calls that may require
> CLAMAV's resources (in this case clamd), and sendmail makes calls that
> may require MIMEDefang's resources, it seemed appropriate to ensure that
> those resources available before any chance of them being called.
I suspect the order of ClamD and MIMEDefang doesn't matter, as long as
they're both loaded before Sendmail, since (in theory) MIMEDefang won't
need access to ClamAV until Sendmail hands it a message. Conceptually,
though, it is cleaner to start Clam first.
--
Kelson Vibber
SpeedGate Communications <www.speed.net>
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