Re: [exim] Failover if spamd fails

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Author: Jonathan Vanasco
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To: Christian Schmidt
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] Failover if spamd fails

Periodic restarts do help.

SpamD tends to die often, with little or no trace of why it happened.
It seems to do have issues in groups -- fine for a month, then issues
for a few days, etc.

I do our scanning via SA-Exim, so if there's no spamd, the test is just
skipped and delivery is routed fine -- I'm alerted when there is spam
in my inbox.

I dont know how it works via exiscan - but normal delivery as a
failsafe isn't a bad idea. I'd rather get spam + messages than wait
hours for someone to discover a problem for me to get any mail at all.






On Mar 14, 2005, at 9:19 AM, Christian Schmidt wrote:
>
> Maybe a periodic restart of spamd (triggered by cron) could solve the
> poblem (or better: fight the symptoms ;-), too...
>