Help! SA timing out, mail undelivered

mikea mikea at MIKEA.ATH.CX
Wed Aug 6 01:06:16 IST 2003


On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 04:24:33PM -0500, Furnish, Trever G wrote:
> This is the first time I've looked at ms/sa debug output, so maybe this is a
> red herring (especially since you say rbl's seem to be working), but why
> does it seem to think dns is unavailable?
>
> Also, I'm a little confused about why a SA timeout that MS properly kills
> would be responsible for stopped mail-flow - when I see messages like that,
> I still get the message delivered, just not scanned by SA.  ...at least I
> think I still get it.  Maybe I need to verify that. :-)
>
> When you say "disable SA" you mean setting "use spamassassin = no" in the
> MailScanner.conf file, right?

Exactly.

The only SA code that runs is the SA code started inside the various
MS processes.

I also am looking at the DNS stuff -- or will tomorrow.

Thanks!

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Mike Andrews
mikea at mikea.ath.cx
Tired old sysadmin since 1964



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