Debian Exim 4.88~RC6 and Rspamd 1.4.1 not working

[Tim Bates]

I run Debian 8.6 (with backports) and use Exim4. This has been working quite well for some months, until yesterday, when I updated the server.
Now I'm getting no filtering, and this sort of message in exim's paniclog:
"2016-12-26 09:11:27 1cLH0o-0000dp-Rg spam acl condition: all spamd servers failed"

I can connect to the rspamd port using telnet, but I'm not sure if I can further test that - I don't get any log messages from rspamd when I do it though, nor does it respond to any input. Not sure if that's normal though.

Any clues?

[Andrew Lewis]

Hi Tim,

Error message seems to suggest Exim was unable to establish a
connection to Rspamd.

Beyond that: you could test rspamd with `rspamc`; monitor
communications on the wire between Exim & Rspamd to see what happens;
check your Exim config to see that settings are still sane.

Best,
-AL.

[Tim Bates]

Exim config all looks OK.
Good idea with the rspamc thing... I've got a script that uses rspamd to learn spam, so I tried that and it's still working fine. So I guess it's Exim that broke things. Having now checked the timeline of updates, it looks like the issue came up solely from Exim updating. Looks like it was on 4.87 then updated to 4.88. Both are from Debian packages from jessie-backports.

And the main Exim logs are also saying "spam acl condition: spamd: failed to connect to any address for 127.0.0.1: Broken pipe" in addition to the other error I posted before. Does that give any more clues?

TB

[Andrew Lewis]

Hi,

> And the main Exim logs are also saying "spam acl condition: spamd: failed
> to connect to any address for 127.0.0.1: Broken pipe" in addition to the
> other error I posted before. Does that give any more clues?

Not really- maybe you see this if Rspamd is shut down for upgrade or
it crashes during scan.

I've tested indicated versions of the respective software & I did not
encounter problems so I don't suspect there should be any particular
issue.

Best,
-AL.