Author: Ian FREISLICH Date: To: Andreas Pettersson CC: exim users Subject: Re: [exim] restarting spamd makes spam slip through?
Andreas Pettersson wrote: > Hi all.
>
> I run Exim 4.63 and SpamAssassin (from acl) on FreeBSD.
> Sometimes when I need to restart spamd I find that a few spam mails slip
> through, even though spamd is unavailable for less than a second. To
> prevent this from happening I tried to stop exim first, wait a few
> seconds, and then restart spamd, but the problem still occurs sometimes.
>
> I get three of these in paniclog:
> spam acl condition: warning - spamd connection to 127.0.0.1, port 783
> failed: Connection refused
> spam acl condition: all spamd servers failed
>
> How can I make sure exim has nothing 'going on' while I restart spamd?
What does your spam acl look like? I've found that if the 'spam =
xxx' statement is not in a 'deny' acl, exim doesn't pass the DEFER
returned by exiscan to the SMTP connection.
