SA Timed Out (Redux)

[Chris Trudeau]

 I didn't receive a response...so I thought I would try again...

 long story short:

 SA is timing out and delivering spam to my account.  My headers after
 delivery look like this:


 X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out)

 Is it safe to assume that if SA times out, mailscanner delivers?  Why would
 that be?  What do I have wrong in my config?

 Thanks in advance for your help!

 Log entries are here (using postfix with seperate logging facilities...this
 is ONLY MailScanner logging)

 Oct  9 19:07:03 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
 1974 bytes
 Oct  9 19:07:03 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Spam Checks: Starting
 Oct  9 19:07:44 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
 killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
 Oct  9 19:09:12 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Virus and Content Scanning:
 Starting
 Oct  9 19:09:36 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
 Oct  9 19:09:36 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Inserting message log data
 Oct  9 19:09:37 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Finished inserting log data
 Oct  9 19:09:37 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: SIGPIPE received - trying new log
 socket
 Oct  9 19:09:37 mta02 MailScanner[19576]: Finished inserting log data


 Oct  9 18:41:56 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: New Batch: Scanning 1 messages,
 2551 bytes
 Oct  9 18:41:56 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: Spam Checks: Starting
 Oct  9 18:42:36 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
 killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20
 Oct  9 18:42:45 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: Virus and Content Scanning:
 Starting
 Oct  9 18:42:46 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: Uninfected: Delivered 1 messages
 Oct  9 18:42:46 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: Inserting message log data
 Oct  9 18:42:46 mta02 MailScanner[17788]: Finished inserting log data

 Any thoughts?

 CT



 ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Trudeau" <chris at TRUDEAU.ORG>
> To: <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 11:46 AM
> Subject: SA Timed Out (Redux)
>
>
> > This has been discussed many times on the list,but I'm unable to find a
> > reason for it.
> >
> > I just installed 4.24-5 and SA 2.60.
> >
> > I am running Razor and DCC Checks as well as RBL.
> >
> > I get intermittent messages that are SPAM that get through, when
analyzing
> > the header SAReport, it indicates that SpamAssassin timed out.
> >
> > I decided that allowing mailscanner to have to wait for a response from
a
> > name server that is on the Internet, to run a caching nameserver ON the
> > mailscanner machine to alleviate these non-identified SPAM messages.
This
> > seems to have decreased the number of occurences, however, it is still
> > happening intermittently. When I try a spamassassin --lint, and through
> 95%
> > of all other messages that are processed, the SpamAssassin doesn't time
> out
> > and processes the message normally...but every now and again it will
time
> > out and answers that the message is NOT SPAM.
> >
> > My questions are two-fold:
> >
> > 1.  If I am not seeing any performance related problems when the
timeouts
> > occur and the network is as available as always, what could be causing
> these
> > timeouts.
> >
> > 2.  if SA does timeout, I think it makes sense to have MailScanner
> re-queue
> > the message for analysis...is this configurable?
> >
> > Perhaps I just missed a configuration step..but I don't seem to remember
> the
> > problem in 4.22-5/SA2.55
> >
> > ideas?
> >
> > THX
> > CT
>