[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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