Sudden surge in spam

[James Pifer]

I was missing some timeout settings in spam.assassin.prefs.conf. Looks
like it was part of an upgrade and I didn't go through that file.

rbl_timeout     20
razor_timeout   10
pyzor_timeout   10

I'll see if that helps things.

Thanks,
James

On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:30, James Pifer wrote:
> ah, spamassassin is timing out so the spam check isn't even happening on
> some messages.
>
> I didn't have relays.osirusoft.com in my MailScanner.con and I already
> commented it out of spam.assassin.prefs.conf. (and reloaded MailScanner)
>
> Where else should I look to see what is wrong?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:27, Spicer, Kevin wrote:
> > James Pifer wrote:
> > > Like a dummy, I deleted those emails in question from this morning.
> > > I'll compare the next ones to the headers you sent. In header I
> > > looked at this morning I don't remember seeing an
> > > X-MailScanner-SpamCheck, which my messages marked as spam have. The
> > > next set I get in I'll check the headers and not delete them... :-(
> > >
> > Suggest you set...
> > Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes
> >
> > in MailScanner.conf (then service MailScanner reload).  Then you'll always see the SpamAssassin report even on low scoring messages, this will probably help diagnose why it is not being tagged as spam.
> >
> >
> >
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