spam connection failing

Tom Hendrikx tom at whyscream.net
Fri Sep 16 09:46:51 CEST 2016


Hi,

spamc is ran by something else (not amavis). It fails because you don't
have spamd running, which is not necessary for amavis.

The errors are harmless in relation to amavis, but you might try to find
what is calling spamc on your machine.

Kind regards,
	Tom

On 14-09-16 23:59, @lbutlr wrote:
> I’m not exactly sure what is happening here as I though amavisd handled spam on its own, but I am getting these errors in maillog:
> 
> Sep 14 15:40:45 mail spamc[59465]: connect to spamd on ::1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
> Sep 14 15:40:45 mail spamc[59465]: connect to spamd on 127.0.0.1 failed, retrying (#1 of 3): Connection refused
> 
> but then I also see message like:
> 
> Sep 14 15:22:09 mail amavis[57355]: (57355-05) Passed SPAM {RelayedTaggedInbound,RelayedOpenRelay,Quarantined}, [127.0.0.1] [88.119.161.147] <return at williammullens.com> -> <*munged*@covisp.net> quarantine: spam-GqVw5K3dLb3h.gz, Message-ID: <7e6e003924de6534aba98a9a7019dd1e at williammullens.com>, mail_id: GqVw5K3dLb3h, Hits: 9.04, size: 3016, queued_as: 3sZDyT5vylz1GxHH/3sZDyT60S3z1H0Yr, 1278 ms
> Sep 14 15:43:09 mail amavis[57355]: (57355-18) Passed BAD-HEADER-8 {RelayedInbound,RelayedOpenRelay,Quarantined}, [127.0.0.1] [208.127.104.77] <users-return-114257-kremels=kreme.com at httpd.apache.org> -> <kremels at covisp.net> quarantine: badh-9xon-ig-OgSQ, Message-ID: <f618e0160c0147bc94c32461c7b0cc6c at k6ccc.org>, mail_id: 9xon-ig-OgSQ, Hits: -9.965, size: 7357, queued_as: 3sZFQj0MlGz1GxHH, 1430 ms
> 
> So, amavisd is doing its thing, but I keep getting these errors in maillog.
> 
> Also, I have $sa_tag_level_deflt  = 2.0; but X-Spam headers are not getting added to any emails that I can find.
> 
> I don’t have a spamassassin getting called from postfix:
> 
>  # postconf -M | grep -i spam
>  # postconf -nf | grep -i spam
>     dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.14*9 zen.spamhaus.org=127.0.0.[10;11]*8
>     dnsbl.sorbs.net=127.0.0.5*7 zen.spamhaus.org=127.0.0.[4..7]*7
>     b.barracudacentral.org=127.0.0.2*7 zen.spamhaus.org=127.0.0.3*7
>     hostkarma.junkemailfilter.com=127.0.0.2*4 bl.spamcop.net=127.0.0.2*4
>     bl.spameatingmonkey.net=127.0.0.[2;3]*4 dnsrbl.swinog.ch=127.0.0.3*4
>     zen.spamhaus.org=127.0.0.2*3 score.senderscore.com=127.0.4.[0..20]*3
>     dnsbl-1.uceprotect.net=127.0.0.2*2 all.spamrats.com=127.0.0.38*2
> 


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