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

so i can put /defer_ok after

spam = nobody:true

or do I remove the :true part of it?

and

do I put it after ever spam = statement or just the last?

Thanks for your help.

Frank

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Bowyer [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 2:19 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [exiscanusers] 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 is
> > 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 resulted
> > in multiple copies of email getting through.
>
> 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)
> >
> > warn    message = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)
> >        spam = nobody:true
> > warn   message = X-Spam-Report: $spam_report
> >       spam = nobody:true
> > warn    message = Subject: *SPAM* $h_subject:
> >       spam = nobody
> > deny   message = This message scored $spam_score spam points
> >       spam = nobody:true
> >       condition = ${if > {$spam_score_int}{60}{1}{0}}
>
> /defer_ok on the end of all the spam= 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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