SpamAssassin timeout - can't disable RBL check

[Magda Hewryk]

I've changed it to Spam List =   and still have a problem with RBL check:

Jan  7 12:19:21 tonka MailScanner[2890]: RBL Check  timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7




                    Julian Field
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At 15:38 07/01/2003, you wrote:
>For some reason even if I disabled RBL checks  I'm still timeout out from
>SpamAssassin.  Yes, I stop/start  MailScanner.
>
>Jan  7 10:28:28 tonka MailScanner[15526]: RBL Check no timed out and was
>killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7

You created an RBL list of "no". What you want is an empty list.


>Any hints why RBL is still active?
>
>
>I'm running :
>Redhat 7.3
>MailScanner: 4.10
>SpamAssassin 2.43
>
>1)I've changes RBL check in spam.assassin.prefs.conf file:
>
># By default, SpamAssassin will run RBL checks.  If your ISP already
># does this, set this to 1.
>#
># skip_rbl_checks 1   - mnh this is by default commented out
>skip_rbl_checks 1
>
>2)  I've disabled RBLs from MailScanner.conf file
># This is the list of spam blacklists (RBLs) which you are using.
># See the "Spam List Definitions" file for more information about what
># you can put here.
># This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
># mnh Spam List = ORDB-RBL Infinite-Monkeys # MAPS-RBL+ costs money
(except
>.ac.uk)
># mnh Spam List = ORDB-RBL #MAPS-RBL+ costs money (except .ac.uk)
>Spam List = no
>
>
>
>Thanks,
>
>Magda Hewryk
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>At 12:56 07/01/2003, you wrote:
> >On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, InvictaNet Customer Support wrote:
> >
> > > Since mid afternoon yesterday, spamassassin has timed out every time.
I
> > have
> > > tried increasing the timeout period to 30 seconds but that didn't
help.
> > >
> > > Where can I find information on what is causing the timeout? -
>Mailscanner
> > > itself doesn't seem to have a problem and viruses are being detected
>ok.
> >
> >Ah!  Interesting.
> >
> >Around 11:00 GMT/UT yesterday (Mon 6th Jan), I noticed our MailScanner
> >inbound queue similarly started piling up and not clearing.  Likewise we
> >got SpamAssassin timeouts and I ended up inserting "skip_rbl_checks 1"
> >into "spam.assassin.prefs.conf" which seemed to avoid the immediate
> >problem.
> >
> >As far as I know there were no local changes coincident with this (it
had
> >been running happily since well before the Christmas holiday).
> >
> >We are:
> >   Redhat 7.3
> >   MailScanner: 4.05-3
> >   SpamAssassin 2.43
> >   configuration policy: as delivered, change as little as possible
> >   ~25,000 emails per day
> >
> >Is there someone on this list who knows the murky depths of SpamAssassin
> >and their interaction with MailScanner?  (I don't!)  My suspicion is
that
> >some RBL check, called from SpamAssassin, is in trouble, and that
> >SpamAssassin's timeouts (either internally or as guided somehow by
> >MailScanner) are not behaving properly.
>
>Have a look in your maillog for
>          SpamAssassin timed out and was killed
>This should be followed by the failure number, which will hopefully slowly
>count up from 1. What log entries have you got of this type?
>--
>Julian Field
>www.MailScanner.info
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>I don't know about slowly.......
>Mine went from 1 to 10 quite rapidly. Since I disabled the RBL checks
>everything has gone fine.
>
>Martyn Routley
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