SpamAssassin Timeouts

[Julian Field]

How about I change the default timeout to be 40 seconds then?
The only problem there is that it won't get picked up by people using
upgrade_MailScanner_conf as that will copy their old value into the new
conf file. But it will help new users.

At 20:44 16/04/2003, you wrote:
>No, this is likely a continuation of sillyness between MailScanner and
>spamassassin about default choices of timeout.
>
>MailScanner by default runs SA with a 30 second timeout.
>
>SA by default queries DNSBL's with a 30 second timeout.
>
>Thus, any time a DNSBL server fails to respond, MailScanner kills SA before
>SA can complete. It's a bug to expect an application to complete within 30
>seconds, when you know that one of the operations used within that can take
>30 seconds on it's own.
>
>As far as I know this bug has always been present in the default
>MailScanner config. I'm running a very old version (almost a year old) and
>it was there, and well known, back then. Apparently this has not changed.
>
>The appropriate part of man Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf is:
>
>        rbl_timeout n       (default 30)
>            All RBL queries are started at the beginning and we try to read
>            the results at the end. In case some of them are hanging or not
>            returning, you can specify here how long you're willing to wait
>            for them before deciding that they timed out
>
>Either the SA timeout that MS uses should be 35 (or longer), or the
>rbl_timeout that SA uses should be changed to 25 (or less) in
>spam.assassin.prefs.conf to prevent this sillyness. I personally run with a
>10 second rbl_timeout.
>
>
>At 11:04 AM 4/16/2003 -0700, Mark Nienberg wrote:
>>I'm not sure how to troubleshoot the timeouts but after I installed
>>SpamAssassin it timed out for about 10%-15% of the messages.  When I
>>changed to
>>
>>SpamAssassin Timeout = 40
>>
>>from its default value of 30, the problem disappeared entirely.  Maybe a
>>function of our internet connection speed or the server speed or
>>something, I don't know.
>>
>>Mark

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