SpamAssassin caused error messages

Julian Field mailscanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Mon Mar 24 22:04:23 GMT 2003


I believe this is fixed in the next release.

At 20:10 24/03/2003, you wrote:
>I continue to get the error
>
>"timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input"
>
>appearing in my log when using spamassassin.  It generally occurs during
>heavy system loads.  It is described on the sendmail website and occurs
>when "e-mail is delivered to a program which generates too much output".
>
>Experimenting with spamassassin I've found that turning off spamassassin
>calls by MS and calling spamassassin in procmail will eliminate the
>problem.  However, using spamc instead of spamassassin in procmail will
>also cause the error messages to appear.  This appears to be consistent
>with direct calls from MS.
>
>I've mentioned this behaviour on the SpamAssassin mailing list but been
>told that no one else is seeing the problem.
>
>In any case, I just wanted to mention it here in case others might be
>experiencing the problem.  BTW, it isn't unique to 2.50 or 2.51.  I was
>seeing these errors back on 2.43.
>
>Gerry

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