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

On Tue, 31 May 2005 19:19:18 +0100
Peter Bowyer <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 31/05/05, Frank DeChellis <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > 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).

Apparently not, I have more or less the same in my exim.conf with
the/defer_ok included.

If I shut down spamd by hand and get per msgs four times these lines in
exim/mainlog:

spam acl condition: warning - spamd connection to 127.0.0.1, port 783
failed: Connection refused 
spam acl condition: all spamd servers failed

Finally the msgs is delivered -- once.


But once-in-a-while my spamd blocks (why is this?) and then I get
multiple copies of each e-mail thru. Now I get in paniclog lines like

spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection reset by
peer

It seems that if this happens exim keeps trying but not cleaning up
previous tries. If spamd than starts working again I end up in having
multiple copies of each messages in my inbox.

If anybody has a solution to one of these problems (spamd locking up
and exim multiplying msgs) please tell me.


grts Tim