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

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (May 24), Chan, Wilson said:
> I had spamass-milter lockup again and when this happened users were
> getting duplicate emails some got up to 6 duplicates. I think my cron
> reset script (checks every 5minutes)cleared up the problem but does it
> make sense that users would get duplicate emails when spamass-milter is
> down? 

No, since that would mean that sendmail's default mode of operation is
"duplicate emails", and using a milter turns it off?  :)

The default sendmail behaviour when a configured milter is missing is
to pass the message through as if the milter wasn't configured at all. 
You can set it to return a tempfail code (F=T) or a reject (F=R), but
neither of those should cause duplicated messages unless the sending
server is buggy.

What kind of dupes are they?  Identical Received: headers (which
implies duplication on the local machine), or different headers (which
means the remote server resent the message)?  Looking at the maillog
may help here too.

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        Dan Nelson
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