Help! SA timing out, mail undelivered

[Julian Field]

Give me (off-list!) IP and access details for ssh, along with the root
password and I'll take a look for you.

At 17:21 07/08/2003, you wrote:
>On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 07:06:16PM -0500, mikea wrote:
> > 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.
>
>I am at wit's end. The DNS requests appear all to be OK: each request
>to the server has a matching response. (sloppy Perl program to analyze
>tcpdump output available on request)
>
>I have gone so far as to reboot the mailscanner machine, have emptied
>/etc/mail/mailscanner/* (moved local.cf to another directory), and so
>on. Mail still hangs in the mqueue.in queue, I have 5 mailscanner
>processes eating up about 20% of the box each, and it is *obvious* to
>me that they're waiting on *something* -- but I can't tell what, except
>that SpamAssassin is timing out, and I can't tell why from the MS or
>SA diagnostics.
>
>Logs, configuration files, tcpdump output, beer, and small amounts of
>blood available on request. Blood may be limited by stock on hand, as
>the users are gritching about wanting mine if I don't stop the spam!
>
>--
>Mike Andrews
>mikea at mikea.ath.cx
>Tired old sysadmin since 1964

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