Restarting milter and sendmail

Hi,

Is it necessary to restart sendmail after restarting a milter? For a
while I've been able to restart my milter without restarting sendmail
and things would work fine. My milter communicates with sendmail
through a unix domain socket and will remove any existing sockets on
startup. Recently, however, I restarted the milter while sendmail was
busy processing mail on several open connections. I noticed my milter
acting strange and returning incorrect message sizes and data. I tried
restarting the milter again by itself but it was still acting strange.
Finally, I restarted the sendmail and that seemed to fix things. I'm
wondering if its required to restart sendmail everytime you restart
the milter, or if its optional and there's a bug in my program.

Regards,
-Kai

Re: Restarting milter and sendmail

"Kai" wrote in message
news:7256a45f.0411211713.35aa6a84@posting.google.com...
> Hi,
>
> Is it necessary to restart sendmail after restarting a milter? For a
> while I've been able to restart my milter without restarting sendmail
> and things would work fine. My milter communicates with sendmail
> through a unix domain socket and will remove any existing sockets on
> startup. Recently, however, I restarted the milter while sendmail was
> busy processing mail on several open connections. I noticed my milter
> acting strange and returning incorrect message sizes and data. I tried
> restarting the milter again by itself but it was still acting strange.
> Finally, I restarted the sendmail and that seemed to fix things. I'm
> wondering if its required to restart sendmail everytime you restart
> the milter, or if its optional and there's a bug in my program.
>

It's been my experience that it's best to (re)start Sendmail after
(re)starting a milter.

Best regards,
Don Kelloway
Commodon Communications