SpamAssassin timed out and was killed

Paul Welsh paul-w at BLUEYONDER.CO.UK
Wed Apr 10 21:17:07 IST 2002


----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Welsh" <paul-w at blueyonder.co.uk>
To: "MailScanner mailing list" <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: 10 April 2002 00:49
Subject: Re: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed


> >
> > Date:    Tue, 9 Apr 2002 13:46:49 +0100
> > From:    Julian Field <jkf at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
> > Subject: Re: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed
> >
> > If the load on the system is getting high, then the default timeout
> may not
> > be long enough. However, you may not have sufficient horsepower on
> your
> > current server to run SpamAssassin at all.
>
> Out of about 700 messages today, I got the "timed out" error on 34 of
> them, ie, under 5%.  I've doubled the timeout value in
mailscanner.conf
> to 20 to see what happens.
>
This worked!  I had zero "timed out" messages today out of about 700.



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