Re: current state of spamass-milter

[Chad Whitten]

what flags are you running spamass-milter and spamd with?

On Thursday 30 September 2004 14:31, Chris Crowley wrote:
> I remember that problem.  The outward appearance would be that sendmail
> would hang when you connected to it.  But, inspecting the problem showed
> the milter had failed.
>
> In my experience ( 3 nodes, 75k messages / day on each ) the milter has
> been very stable.  I am running the 0.2 branch.
>
> I do have a script which checks every few minutes for the existence of
> the socket to make sure that the milter is actually running.  I also
> check sendmail response time using a simple netcat ( nc ) script, and
> take the node out of the cluster and restart everything in case of
> problems.
>
> Chris Crowley
>
> Dan Nelson wrote:
> > In the last episode (Sep 30), Chad Whitten said:
> >>ive got 4 mx servers running mimedefang + spamassassin & sendmail
> >>8.13.  i tried out spamass-milter about a year ago but it would
> >>randomly die.  Is this fixed now?  Ive downloaded via cvs and
> >>compiled and plan to test it out on one of my mx servers but was just
> >>looking for some feedback before giving it a go.
> >
> > I haven't had my milters die on me in months, but they are relatively
> > light-duty (10k messages/day).
> >
> > Whenever you get a crash, report it so I know there's a problem :)  The
> > only thing that I know will cause the current CVS code to crash is an
> > ipv6 connection.  There might be a simple fix but I haven't looked at
> > it.

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