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

On 31/05/05, Frank DeChellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> OK, so I want to have my exim scan with Spam Assassin.  if spamassassin i=
s
> busy I want the email sent through to the end user and not scanned again
> later.  I've tried /defer_ok in a few places but my problem is when it
> defers, it sends the email through anyway then scnas it again..it resulte=
d
> in multiple copies of email getting through.=20

You've missed the meaning of defer_ok. It means 'if you would have
deferred because of a problem with the external process, don't'. So it
will do exactly what you need.

The exiscan docs at
http://duncanthrax.net/exiscan-acl/exiscan-acl-spec.txt explain this
pretty well, search for 'defer_ok'.

> How would I configure this
> group of statements to satisfy my needs (I don;t like how that sounded ha
> ha)
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> warn    message =3D X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)
>        spam =3D nobody:true
> warn   message =3D X-Spam-Report: $spam_report
>       spam =3D nobody:true
> warn    message =3D Subject: *SPAM* $h_subject:
>       spam =3D nobody
> deny   message =3D This message scored $spam_score spam points
>       spam =3D nobody:true
>       condition =3D ${if > {$spam_score_int}{60}{1}{0}}

/defer_ok on the end of all the spam=3D lines. The actual scan attempt
will, I believe, only happen once, because the subsequent calls use
cached results (but I could be wrong, maybe the failure isn't cached).

Peter

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