spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection timed out

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2015-03-29 Rainer Dorsch <ml at bokomoko.de> wrote:
> I get from time to time this error message on my spamassassin+exim4 setup:

> 2015-03-26 20:46:22 1YbDhW-00062f-G2 spam acl condition: error reading from 
> spamd socket: Connection timed out

> I suspect that on this virtual machine, sometimes there are really long 
> processing times.

> I am wondering if 
> 	local_scan_timeout
> is the right parameter to modify.


No, local_scan_timeout and the spam ACL are not related. See
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-adding_a_local_scan_function_to_exim.html
http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scanning_at_acl_time.html#SECTscanspamass

Usually this error happens when large messages are passed to
spamassassin, best practice is to limit the message size of messages
passed on to spamassassin.

cu Andreas
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