Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-18 Thread Dennis Peterson
Christopher X. Candreva said: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > >> If user A emails user B and the email doesn't go through in under 2 >> minutes, there will be complaints. Tempfail is just too dangerous. >> Yes, nothing will be lost. But you have to admit it's pretty bad for >> ema

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-18 Thread Christopher X. Candreva
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > If user A emails user B and the email doesn't go through in under 2 > minutes, there will be complaints. Tempfail is just too dangerous. > Yes, nothing will be lost. But you have to admit it's pretty bad for > email to be down. A few viruses leaking

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-18 Thread Joe Maimon
Damian Menscher wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Todd Lyons wrote: It shouldn't, however change if a virus is accepted - since sendmail should be tempfailing mail until the milters are functioning. Incorrect, depending on how you define your

RE: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-17 Thread Samuel Benzaquen
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Damian Menscher wrote: > > For most mailserver admins, the danger of losing our jobs > > is much greater if we tempfail all incoming mail due to a clamav crash > > than is the dan

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-17 Thread Damian Menscher
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > > > > Yes, I guess one cant legislate sanity, can one :( > > > But spamassassin and clamav should default to tempfail ! > > > > > > ...still cant believe

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-17 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > > > > Yes, I guess one cant legislate sanity, can one :( > > But spamassassin and clamav should default to tempfail ! > > > > ...still cant believe that > > people aren't recommending a safe, by default se

RE: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-17 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
Damian Menscher wrote: > For most mailserver admins, the danger of losing our jobs > is much greater if we tempfail all incoming mail due to a clamav crash > than is the danger of losing our jobs due to a couple of viruses leaking > through. s/most/some/; Spoken as one who has never gotten burned

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-17 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Todd Lyons wrote: > > > >It shouldn't, however change if a virus is accepted - since sendmail > > >should be tempfailing mail until the milters are functioning. > > > > Incorrect, depending on how you define your milter call for se

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Todd Lyons wrote: > >It shouldn't, however change if a virus is accepted - since sendmail > >should be tempfailing mail until the milters are functioning. > > Incorrect, depending on how you define your milter call for sendmail. Yes, I guess one cant legislate sanity, can one

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-16 Thread Damian Menscher
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Todd Lyons wrote: > >It shouldn't, however change if a virus is accepted - since sendmail > >should be tempfailing mail until the milters are functioning. > > Incorrect, depending on how you define your milter call for sendmail. > > So by not specifying an F=T setting, you're

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-16 Thread Todd Lyons
Richard A Nelson wanted us to know: >> The sample init scripts (for RedHat) start clamd and clamav-milter at >> sequence numbers 90 and 91. The RH default sendmail starts at sequence >> number 80. I'd ignored this when setting things up before, since I >Good plan, I did that for Debian - made se

Re: [Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-16 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Damian Menscher wrote: > The sample init scripts (for RedHat) start clamd and clamav-milter at > sequence numbers 90 and 91. The RH default sendmail starts at sequence > number 80. I'd ignored this when setting things up before, since I > figured being vulnerable to viruses

[Clamav-users] contrib/init/RedHat suggested patch

2004-08-16 Thread Damian Menscher
The sample init scripts (for RedHat) start clamd and clamav-milter at sequence numbers 90 and 91. The RH default sendmail starts at sequence number 80. I'd ignored this when setting things up before, since I figured being vulnerable to viruses for a few seconds at boot time was acceptable. But t