Author: Keith Brazington Date: To: Jerry Bell CC: Exim users list, Marc Perkel Subject: Re: [exim] Failover if spamd fails
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 13:42:33 -0500 (EST), Jerry Bell <jbell@???> wrote: >
> Just as a side note, I stopped having spamd problems after I set up a cron
> job to shut down and restart it every night. I pull in the latest SARE
> rules files just before doing that, so it not only keeps things humming,
> but also keeps the filter up-to-date.
We got better results using the "--max-conn-per-child=num" option to
spamd and setting it to a suitable value with respect to the volume of
mail being received. That plus the above advice REALLY helps.
