On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 12:49:25PM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 06:25 -0600, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The only suggestion I have for the default config file is to use the > > defered_ok switch on the malware and spam ACL entries. I uncommented > > the acl_smtp_data = acl_check_content line and my server promptly > > started rejecting mail because I don't have sophie installed. If > > defered_ok had been used, the mail would have come through just fine. > > If you really mean 'rejecting' mail then let me know and I'll look into > it right now. If as I suspect you just mean 'deferring' -- it was giving > a temporary error and no mail was lost, then I'm less sure. Yes, I meant deferring. But in my case, it was continually defering until I bothered to check the logs, which to a newbie looks like rejecting. After I commented the line out and restarted exim, the mail came through fine. > > One might argue that deferral is the correct behaviour -- if you enabled > the spam checking and your spamd is broken, it's better to keep the mail > in the queue elsewhere until your spamd is fixed than it is to just > accept the incoming mail, spam and all. Maybe. But I know some list maintainers that get cranky if they notice email that is stuck in their queue ;). > > If the checking were enabled by default then I'd agree with you -- but > since you have to actually _ask_ for spam checking, I'm inclined to > suggest that it's better the way it is. That's just it. I _did_ ask for spam checking. I started spamassassin and then uncommented that line. What I didn't expect is for it to defer email when I don't even have a virus checker installed. Call it a newbie mistake. > > We can certainly add the defer_ok option to the comments though, so it > stares you in the face if you do enable the checking. Would that be > sufficient? Sure, adding that to the comments would be fine IMHO. That way newbies will at least know what happens when they don't have spamassassin or a virus checker running, and how to work around it if they don't want to do one or the other. josh
