Troubleshooting SPAM REPORT : TIMED OUT errors

[Julian Field]

At 20:16 15/04/2004, you wrote:
>Every 20 messages or so I get a spam message that has a 0.00 spam rating
>and has SPAM REPORT : TIMED OUT (MailWatch Interface).  /var/log/maillog
>shows that it killed the SpamAssassin because it timed out.  I tried
>increasing the interval to 120 seconds in mailscanner config but that
>hasn't helped (restarted service after change).
>command line lint test looks good, about 10 seconds to perform all the
>tests. And obviously its working 1 out of every 20 times.
>How can I log the SpamAssassin details to a logfiles so that I can see
>what is causing the hangup sometimes?  I would imagine it requires
>runnning SpamAssassin in DEBUG mode but that outputs to the console and I
>am remote so I need to output to a file instead, thus I would turn on the
>DEBUG for say 10 minutes to capture the details, then parse thru that log
>file to look at the problem message to see what caused SpamAssassin to
>fail.  Any help would be appreciated.  Thanks

All you can do is
Debug = yes
Debug SpamAssassin = yes
and watch the output. It doesn't log everything to a file, sorry.


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