I'm running spamd on a separate server from postfix. Postfix runs
spamc with this configuration in master.cf:
smtp inet n - y - - smtpd -o
content_filter=spamc
smtp unix - - y - - smtp -o
content_filter=spamc
spamc unix - n n - - pipe
user=nobody argv=/usr/bin/spamc -t 1200 -u ${user} -d
<my.spamassassin.server> -e /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -f ${sender}
${recipient}
Occasionally, spamd will take a while to return or spamd will have died
or something and, instead of failing gracefully, postfix will bounce
the email:
Action: failed
Status: 5.0.0
Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; Command time limit exceeded:
"/usr/bin/spamc"
I already have the timeout option set to 1200. I don't think that
increasing that is the way to go.
'man spamc' describes the '-x' option which turns off 'safe fallback'
error-recovery. Since I'm not using this option, why am I not getting
a 'safe fallback' behavior?
Is there a better way to configure postfix and/or spamc so that
spamassassin-checking is skipped rather than the email being bounced in
this type of situation?
Thanks.
