spamc failover

[Rocky Olsen <ro...@mindphone.org>]

Is there any way to make spamc consider a 'timeout' to be a failure event
and fall through to other listed hosts. currently it seems the only time
that failover actually occurs is if spamc can't open a socket on the host.

spamc is being called as 'spamc -d host1,host2,host3', what we are seeing
is that even though all of host1's children are busy it will still accept
connections, if no child becomes available before the timeout value is
reached spamc will never try host2/3. this is causing mail to go unscanned,
and much woe.

yes i know the -H flag will randomize the hosts, the list is being
randomized elsewhere. that isn't the problem i'm looking ot solve.

if there isn't a way to make spamc failover to other hosts for timeouts -
is there instead a way to make spamd stop accepting connections whenever
all of it's children are busy and it's hit the max-children value?



thanks for any help you can provide

-Rocky
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