Hi Michael,
At 14:45 12-11-2008, Michael Hutchinson wrote:
I am wondering, what happens to E-Mail that is
being scanned when the root user on the mail
system restarts Spamassassin? I see lots of
Spamd children before it is restarted and they
suddenly all drop off on a restart (as expected)
do the E-Mails being scanned at that time
actually get re-scanned or do they only get
partially scanned, and then delivered? It would
appear that the number of child processes does
not increase quickly back to what it was before
suggesting the E-Mails that were being scanned
at restart time do not get fully scanned
Does anyone know what the score is here?
SpamAssassin does content filtering only. The
software interacting with SpamAssassin determines
the action to take, i.e. whether to block or drop the email, etc.
If spamd is restarted while an email is being
scanned, the software interacting with
SpamAssassin will not get a negative or positive
response. The software might defer mail delivery
and retry later, hence causing a rescan.
Regards,
-sm
