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

[Rainer Dorsch]

Many thanks, Andreas, for you quick reply.

I "prefixed" all occurences of the ACL condition spam now with 

	     condition = ${if < {$message_size}{10K}}

such that I have now

  # from http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scanning_at_acl_time.html
  # put headers in all messages (no matter if spam or not)
  warn  condition = ${if < {$message_size}{10K}}
        spam = Debian-exim:true
        add_header = X-Spam-Score: $spam_score ($spam_bar)
        add_header = X-Spam-Report: $spam_report

  # add second subject line with *SPAM* marker when message
  # is over threshold
  warn  condition = ${if < {$message_size}{10K}}
        spam = Debian-exim
        add_header = X-Spam-Flag: Yes

  # reject spam at high scores (> 12)
  deny  message = This message scored $spam_score spam points.
        condition = ${if < {$message_size}{10K}}
        spam = Debian-exim:true
        condition = ${if >{$spam_score_int}{120}{1}{0}}

Thanks again,
Rainer


On Sunday 29 March 2015 12:37:45 Andreas Metzler wrote:
> 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_s
> can_function_to_exim.html
> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-content_scannin
> g_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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