[Mimedefang] Setting clamd timeouts.

[David F. Skoll]

Matthew Schumacher wrote:

> That is really interesting that you say that, I just got done explaining
> to another staff member that making mimedefang robust enough to handle
> clamd brown outs without timing out every process would be the better
> solution than kicking clamd because one makes mimedefang more robust and
> the other is a hack to fix clamd.

Well, here's the thing.  Suppose MIMEDefang has a clamd timeout.
What do you do in that case?

1) Tempfail the mail?  Then what's the advantage over just using the
normal MIMEDefang overall timeout (apart, possibly, from better logging)?

2) Allow the mail through?  Ehmm... nope.

Regards,

David.