Spamassassin w/mailscanner

[Julian Field]

At 00:17 19/07/2002, you wrote:
>I think I found the problem...I failed to update the rules for Spamassassin
>after updating the installed distribution.  I have now done so and mail
>seems to be moving OK now.

The new version will also count the number of consecutives timeouts from
SpamAssassin and stop using it for the next few hours if SpamAssassin
repeatedly fails.

So this failure would have far less impact on your mail traffic in the new
version.

>>From: David Closson <davidclosson at MSN.COM>
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>>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>Subject: Spamassassin w/mailscanner
>>Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 14:17:59 -0700
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>>I have recently upgraded Mailscanner to 3.21-1 (from 3.18) and Spamassassin
>>to 2.31 (from 2.20-1).
>>I have now noticed that spamassassin will hang while processing certain
>>messages and cause the incoming mail queue to build (Some messages get
>>through while many do not).  I was forced to turn off spamassassin for now.
>>I was going to go ahead and manually process some messages to see it I can
>>find one that will hang it.
>>
>>I know that there was a discussion thread that pertained to this but I must
>>have missed the resolution.
>>
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>>Sincerely,
>>David Closson
>>209-728-8199
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>David Closson
>209-728-8199
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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
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