Jeff Mincy wrote: > > If I'm reading the spamc man page correctly, it will wait 5 > minutes for spamd to process the message, but it will only wait > about 3 seconds for a connection to spamd (3 tries with 1 second > sleep between them). That's not much of a queue. Or am I missing > something? > > The --connect-retries=retries and --retry-sleep=sleep options control > connection attempts. The connection attempt was successful, you are > just waiting for spamd to get around to the message. If spamd > refuses the connection then spamc will retry a few times.
Ok, so spamd will accept the connection and hold onto it until a child process is available. How many connections can spamd queue? -- Bowie