Marc: > > > I recently had an issue where mail was temporarily rejected because > clamav-milter/spamass-milter could not connect to clamd/spamd. Clamd/Spamd > are a tasks that can automatically change hosts and thus their ips. A simple > restart of the milter fixes this (resolves the new ip). > > However, it would be nice if something could be added to the milter code > that, if it can't contact spamd, it tries to re-resolve the ip address > automatically. > > ps. as you can deduct from the text I am not a 100% sure which milter caused > this actually. > > pps. even nicer would be, the ability to use srv records and use dynamic > ports.
spamass-milter spawns a new spamc process for each incoming message. It does not keep around any such state and wouldn’t need a restart for a changed spamd host.
