Spam Assassin timing out --help

[Matt Kettler]

At 07:21 AM 10/6/2003, you wrote:
>Now I tried to disable RBL checks from MailScanner, with no effect.
>In my spam.assassin.prefs.conf I have skip_rbl_checks 1
>However I still get the SpamAssassin timeouts and my load average is going up.
>Any ideas on what I may be doing wrong.

Do you have razor, pyzor, or dcc installed? One of those could be causing
timeouts.

I'd also suggest copying spam.assassin.prefs.conf to
/root/.spamassassin/user_prefs and running spamassassin --lint, just to
make sure there's no typos in the configfile causing SA to get wedged up.