SpamAssassin Process

[Kris Zabriskie]

Julian,
That change has already been made.  I have been having trouble with
Infinite-Monkeys today, oh well.  It seems like everything is working for
the time being.  Thanks everyone for your help, I do appreciate it!


----- Original Message -----
From: "Julian Field" <mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK>
To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 5:23 PM
Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Process


> Some of the RBLs (particularly osirusoft.com) have been very dodgy today.
> I've been getting timeouts at least 50% of the time.
>
> Try setting
> skip_rbl_checks 1
> in spam.assassin.prefs.conf (in the MailScanner/etc directory).
>
> I hope the RBLs will be behaving better tomorrow.
>
> MailScanner doesn't need anything in SpamAssassin to be "started", nor
does
> it use any external program such as the "spamassassin" script. It
> interfaces directly with SpamAssassin's Perl API for speed.
>
> At 22:02 15/05/2003, you wrote:
> >Jason,
> >I will give that a shot, that was not set up.  It is a test box so it
isn't
> >the best machine to run it on.  It is currently running on a Alpha
Station
> >200 4/66 with probably 128 Megs of RAM.  He is running apache and mysql
(but
> >probably serving up a page once every hour).  It is working now, the
> >timeouts have stopped.  I just gotta tweak the config for SA.  Spam
messages
> >are coming back with a rating of 2.2.
> >
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Desai, Jason" <jase at SENSIS.COM>
> >To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> >Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:55 PM
> >Subject: Re: SpamAssassin Process
> >
> >
> > > My old system used to time out with SpamAssassin a lot when I used the
> >bayes
> > > filters.  You can try disabling them by setting
> > >
> > > use_bayes 0
> > >
> > > in your spam.assassin.prefs.conf file.  What type of system are you
> >running
> > > MailScanner on?  Is it very loaded?
> > >
> > > Jason
> > >
> > > > -----Original Message-----
> > > > From: Forrest Aldrich [mailto:forrie at FORRIE.COM]
> > > > Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 4:49 PM
> > > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > > Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] SpamAssassin Process
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I've also seen the spurious timeouts with SpamAssassin - and
> > > > my system has
> > > > a very low load overall.   I never did figure it out, but it is
> > > > (fortunately) not very frequent.
> > > >
> > > > Might this be connected to SA trying to do it's razor and
> > > > other lookups?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Forrest
> > > >
> > >
>
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