[Mimedefang] Start order for sendmail, MD and Clam

David F. Skoll dfs at roaringpenguin.com
Tue Jun 7 14:21:21 EDT 2005


Kelson wrote:

> 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.

The start order isn't that critical.  If you start Sendmail first,
you'll get a few tempfails and complaints about an unsafe socket file
(DUMB error message), but eventually things should settle down.

Regards,

David.



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