If you're using amavis, what is calling spamc? It sounds like something changed your config somewhere. Did someone put in a procmailrc entry?
On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 2:57 PM, Alejandro Cabrera Obed <aco1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all, I use Postfix (version 2.3.8-2+etch1) + amavisd-new (version > 2.4.2-6.1) + spamassassin (version 3.2.3-0.volatile1), and they are Debian > Etch packages. > > Spamassassin is invoked from amavisd-new, so port TCP/783 is never open. > > A pair of days ago, I notice that the messages are not being checked for > spam, and I have this log messages in /var/log/mail.err time after time: > > May 4 15:55:04 mail spamc[18892]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, > retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused > May 4 15:55:04 mail spamc[18893]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, > retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused > May 4 15:55:04 mail spamc[18894]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, > retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused > May 4 15:55:04 mail spamc[18881]: connection attempt to spamd aborted after > 3 retries > > I tried restarting all the mail services but I fail. > > What can be the problem, because this model has worked very well until last > week and nobody has change nothing except apt-get dist-upgrade from Debian > volatile repositories ??? > > Special thanks > > Alejandro >
