Re: [exim] restarting spamd makes spam slip through?

John Horne wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 15:17 +0200, "Cédric MARCOUX (sprimont)" wrote:
>> use the defer_ok clause to set exim to don't care about health of
>> spamassassin and clamd
>>
> We already use 'defer_ok'. It doesn't seem to help in this case.

defer_ok is the _cause_ of your problem. It tells exim that if
spamassassin is temporarily broken (which would normally defer the
message), it's ok to just ignore the spamassassin rule and just continue
to the next rule. If you remove defer_ok, then when spamassassin is
down, all mail will be deferred until spamassassin is back up and can
process the mail.

- Marc