Re: [exim] spam acl condition: Broken pipe on spamd socket

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Author: Phil Pennock
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To: Joerg Lange
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] spam acl condition: Broken pipe on spamd socket
On 2007-12-29 at 22:29 +0100, Joerg Lange wrote:
> I have set up exim4-daemon-heavy on Debian together with spamassassin.
> I wanted to use the ACL variant to call spamassassion. I uncommented
> the section in the data acl, enabled spamassassin in it's
> configuration file, tested spamassassin (by spamassassin -t <
> spamtest.txt), it all worked. However, emails I send dont get
> classified with X-Spam-Headers. I get an error in my exim paniclog:
> "spam acl condition: Broken pipe on spamd socket".
>
> Any ideas, what I can do, try out?


Look at your spamassassin logs to figure out why it's closing the
connection over the spamd socket. "Broken pipe" is a direct strerror()
string for the EPIPE error code, which means that the socket is not
connected. Ie, the remote side closed the connection early.

Regards,
-Phil