My problems is when the system runs out of resources, the time to scan
takes longer and longer. Yesterday is was failing on a few 100 messages
but I think I needed more tday. In the spamd log it shows by the time to
scan going from 0 or 1 sec to 20 to 100 to .... and finally it breaks the
timeout on [B]SMTP.
The error mesage is givben below with d9 as you suggested.
I use Exiscan v1 patched and modified so I can force it to limit the
number of exims it spawns (and then spamd's). It now fails at 50 but works
fine at 5.
I have also included the message size in the transport condition so as not
to even call spamd if the message is too large. I expect that the SA
whitelist would be better in the EXIM condition.
However the fact remains that it can fail and start bouncing messages is
what concerns me. I cannot find anything about pipes failing but that is
the crux of the problem now.
QUESTION: does anyone know how to trap errors in PIPES and hold the mail
for a retry?
John Linn
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Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 14:16:21 +0100
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To: sys044@???
Subject: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software (Exim).
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pipe delivery process timed out
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Exim version 3.33 debug level 9 uid=7951 gid=2000
Berkeley DB: Sleepycat Software: Berkeley DB 3.1.17: (July 31, 2000)
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Caller is a trusted user
user name "JAL" extracted from gecos field "JAL, for e-mail support"
originator: uid=xxxx gid=yyyy login=XXXX name=JAL
sender address = NULL
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SMTP<< DATA
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