On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 12:04:24PM -0700, Michael Wolfson wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm having some trouble with spamd/spamc and need some help.
> 
> Everything was working fine for a week after I installed it (postfix ->
> procmail -> spamc).  The only gotcha is that I needed to unlimit datasize
> to run spamd (it takes more than 16 MB RAM on my 32 MB system).  Then
> yesterday, spamd stopped responding when spamc started.
> 
> procmail reports spamc ends with:
>                EX_IOERR        74  input/output error
> 
> spamd reports (via syslog):
> Jun 26 14:59:55 costello spamd[4594]: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1]
> at p
> ort 65403
> Jun 26 14:59:55 costello spamd[4834]: info: setuid to mw succeeded
> Jun 26 14:59:56 costello spamd[4834]: processing message
> <1fx6i3w.2q8ijmuv9duvM%
> manu@netbsd.org> for mw:1001.
> 
> Usually, there's another line after this with the spamassassin score.
> Therefore, I can conclude that spamc starts spamd, it starts processing the
> message and then gives up with error 74, whatever that means.

Maybe it has problems with DNS, and procmail times out ?
I got this problem when I first installed spammassassin.
Now I have
LOCKTIMEOUT=7200
TIMEOUT=7200

in my .procmailrc

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 24 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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