Author: Marilyn Davis Date: To: exim-users Subject: Re[2]: [Exim] temporarily rejected RCPT -> fixed itself?
Thank you Richard.
> > telling it's about to call spamc? Could it perhaps be a problem with
> > spamassassin's spamd not accepting the connection from spamc?
>
> in general, temp rejects right after a reboot generally mean that some
> anciliary process (PostgreSQL, MySQL, clamd, etc.) didn't start
> at the same time as exim.
Hmmm. This would be a process that exim is instructed to use in the
configure file? There are only dnslookup, dsearch and lsearch going
on in that configure file.
>
> to fix, restart the processes. to fix permanently, review and correct
> your broken startup scripts.
However, the startup file, /etc/rc.d/rc.local, looks like:
#!/bin/sh
#
# This script will be executed *after* all the other init scripts.
# You can put your own initialization stuff in here if you don't
# want to do the full Sys V style init stuff.