extreamly long delays

Gerry Doris gerry at dorfam.ca
Thu Jul 4 16:00:53 IST 2002


> I'm having a problem similar to this.  I keep getting 'Spamassassin
> timed out and was killed.'  I bumped the timeout time for scanning the
> messages from 10 seconds to 30 seconds and now I don't get this error...
> BUT, SpamAssassin is taking 15-30 seconds to scan each email.
>
> Kris
>   -----Original Message-----
>   From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Bill Omer
>   Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:31 PM
>   To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>   Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] extreamly long delays
>
>
>   I have done both.
>
>
>
>   However, I change:
>
>   Check Spam = yes
>
>   to Check Spam = no
>
>
>
>   now everything is flying.  After doing a little reading, I've learned
> that
> slow dns resolution can cause this problem.  However, I don't have a
> problem at all with resolving domain names.

I've started getting spamassassin timeouts appearing lately too and that's
on a small home server.  It seems like the RBL checks are really going
slowly these days (the heat???).  Perhaps these sites have had problems
lately???

Gerry



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