Author: Ceri Davies Date: To: Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC CC: exim-users Subject: Re: [Exim] Exim+SA: spamc non-0 exit when spamd is down = transport_filter panic
On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 12:23:58PM -0800, Rich, WhidbeyNet NOC wrote: >
> When spamd is running; spamc returns a 0 exitcode, and the message is
> scanned and delivered. When spamd is not running, spamc (from
> "libspamc.c"), returns an EX_UNAVAILABLE exitcode (69), even though
> spamc would have safe-failed fine by outputting the unscanned message.
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> There's bound to be other solutions. Has someone already solved this?
> How do you keep your mail flowing, when spamd dies, besides bandaids
> like process checkers? Maybe I'm all wrong about this.
I'm using procmail to pass the mail to spamc; if this fails for whatever
reason then procmail just continues to the next recipe.
It's not exactly what you asked for, but it works for me.
