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. Ian -- Ian Freislich -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
