RE: spamass-milter -- connection refused error (random lockup)

[Damian Menscher]

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Chan, Wilson wrote:

> > > Extending the timeout shouldn't make a difference.  When you say
> > > lockup, do you mean mail stops being delivered, or what?
>
> The milter stops processing mail to SA, but because the 
> INPUT_MAIL_FILTER has the "F=" flag, sendmail still relays the mail to 
> my internal mail server. The maillog shows that the Milter went into 
> an error state and connection is refused by /var/run/spamass.sock. 
> Only way to get it working again is to shut sa-milter and restart it. 
> This box processes about 10,000+ emails a day and im wondering if its 
> because the milter cant handle the high load. Any ideas? Thanks!

You may want to run my milter_watch script out of cron to automatically 
restart after failures.  Otherwise you'll wake up to a lot of spam in 
the morning....

  http://www.itg.uiuc.edu/itg_software/milter_watch/

Damian Menscher
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