Need to optimise SpamAssassin with MailScanner

Julian Field jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Wed Jan 23 12:23:14 GMT 2002


At 12:11 23/01/2002, you wrote:
>The more serious problem (bug?) is that if the SpamAssasin timeout is
>invoked then MailSanner does not then ignore SpamAssassin for that batch
>of messages and force their delivery but instead keeps trying repeatedly
>to re-run SpamAssassin on that same batch of messages. I infer this
>behaviour because the same process ID prefixes whole groups of the
>"SpamAssasin timed out..." messages in the sendmail logs. That said, it
>does _eventually_ seem to deliver that batch of messahes (after an
>hour?).

If SpamAssassin times out, it simply ignores the return code. It doesn't
test any message more than once.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
                             Southampton SO17 1BJ



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