My problems continue - Please help ASAP

[Julian Field]

At 21:52 21/01/2003, you wrote:
>Couple dumb questions:
>- How do I disable them? (in case there are multiple places I should do
>it) Just remove them from MailScanner.conf?

Set the spam list setting to just be blank.

>- Is this going to allow more spam to get through?

Yes, temporarily. Just while we try to get it all working.


>Thanks,
>James
>
>On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 16:33, Randy Herban wrote:
> > If you are getting a bunch of timeouts to RBL's then its probably a good
> > idea to disable them for the time being.
> > When ORDB (I think) was having problems couple weeks ago mail backed up
> > because spamassassin was timing out to RBLs.
> > Disabling the rbl checks solved the problem and let mail be delivered.
> >
> > -Randy
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Pifer [mailto:mailscannerlist at TNJINFL.COM]
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 4:37 PM
> > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > Subject: My problems continue - Please help ASAP
> >
> >
> > A new problem(could be related to my other problems) came up on the server
> > we have running mailscanner. Mail was not being routed for some reason. The
> > server was recieving mail, but it was all getting stuck in mqueue.in and/or
> > mqueue.
> >
> > I restarted MailScanner(4.10-1) and that didn't seem to do anything.
> >
> > We still have a ton of messages in mqeueu.in and quite a bit in mqueue as
> > well. Should it still deliver everything? It's delivering mail but I can't
> > figure out where it's picking it up from.
> >
> > Has anyone seen this before. I downloaded the maillog and the only
> problem I
> > see is a lot of timeouts while trying to check the RBL's. Currently I'm
> > using ORDB-RBL and Infinite-Monkeys.
> >
> > We had problems where our server just dies. Could these timeouts have
> > anything to do with it?
> >
> > I'm open to any suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > James

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