reload or restart after spamassassin/local.cf change?

[Dominic Raferd]

On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 11:45, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <uhlar at fantomas.sk>
wrote:

> >> On Wed, 2019-04-17 at 09:57 +0100, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> >> > Just wanted to double check this, because it is counter-intuitive to
> >> > me. I thought amavis called SA 'from scratch' each time it wanted to
> >> > use it, so any change in SA config would be picked up immediately
> >> > (because SA must reload its config each time it is called by amavis as
> >> > there is no running SA daemon). If that is not the case, can someone
> >> > explain why?
>
> >On Wed, 17 Apr 2019 at 10:22, Martin Johannes Dauser <
> mdauser at cs.sbg.ac.at>
> >wrote:
> >> Amavis is the SA daemon substitute. You can say, you have a SA daemon
> >> but it's not the standard daemon from the SA project. That's why you
> >> need to restart the amavis daemon which took over this role.
>
> reload is enough.
>
> On 17.04.19 10:47, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> >Thanks for the reply. I realise amavisd-new runs as a daemon but it then
> >calls SA (technically, perl Mail::SpamAssassin) for each mail it wants to
> >check - and I would expect that SA loads its parameters *each time* from
> >its config files.
>
> amavisd calls SA routines.  Amavis loads them, including configs, at
> startup
> to avoid loading it and parsing config files every time new mail arrives.
>
> spamd behaves the same way, because of the same reason, and you need to
> reload after config change too.
>

OK thanks for the explanation
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