Author: Dominik Ruf Date: To: Exim Users Subject: Re: [Exim] Err Msg: temporarily rejected after DATA
* Marty Westra <marty@???> [2004-04-05 20:50]: >
> Apr 5 12:05:58 mail spamd[16033]: razor2 check skipped: Died at
> /usr/share/perl5/Mail/SpamAssassin/Dns.pm line 409.
Have you installed the package libnet-dns-perl if using Debian?
The spamassassin package only "suggests" it, it doesn't "depend"
which would automatically install it using tools like apt-get and Co.
> It doesn't look like the errors are showing up at the same time as my
> rejected error, but if SpamAssassin died while checking an RBL, would it
> continue on, or would it kick back a "temporarily rejected after DATA"
> error?
In case any helper-app (AV-Scanner, spamd, DNS lookup, ...) which is
called via a "deny" statement in an ACL fails, this ACL will return
defer. Or in other words: A deny statement MUST be satisfied for a
message to pass.
