OT: SA Timeout Issues

[Mike Wallis]

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Matt Kettler wrote:

| Well there's two factors here
|
| 1) the default timeout within SA for a RBL is 30 seconds and the default
| timeout in older versions of mailscanner for a SA run was 30 seconds. This
| means that any time an RBL is offline, MS kills SA..
|
| Julian has since increased the default SA timeout, but I'd advise fixing
| the problem by reducing the RBL timeout in SA. It minimizes the impact of
| off-line RBLs anyway..
|
| # cd /usr/local/MailScanner/etc/
| # grep timeout spam.assassin.prefs.conf
| rbl_timeout 10
| razor_timeout 10
|
|
| 2) the orbs RBL, along with all of dorkslayers.com, seems to have
| disappeared from the net, causing the above situation.

That should certainly give me enough to get started in trying to solve
this...  many thanks.

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Mike Wallis
mw at unixsecurity.org
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