Re: Do not issue temporary reject when spamd is unavailable.

Peter Bowyer <[email protected]> Fri, 13 May 2005 23:35:45 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.mail.exim.exiscan.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 09/05/05, John C. Ring, Jr. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Previously I was using the http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html pat=
ch to
> have SpamAssassin reject messages at run time.  I upgraded exim and switc=
hed to
> using exiscan for doing this last week.
>=20
> However, I now notice that if exiscan cannot contact spamd, it issues a
> temporary rejection.  Can I change that?  If not, I may have to go back t=
o the
> other system.  Exim's more reliable then SpamAssassin.  If our spam filte=
ring
> fails for a bit, such as over a weekend, while that's annoying, it wouldn=
't be
> a big deal.  But no e-mail during that period?  That would be considered =
a
> problem.

spam =3D xxxx/defer_ok

Peter
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