Spamassassin Timeouts

[sebastian g. ruchti]

Seems like Matt got the right clue.....

Thanks for all your help!

.sebastian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK]On
> Behalf Of Matt Kettler
> Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2004 5:45 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Spamassassin Timeouts
>
>
> In my experience, under MailScanner, it's almost never a network test, as
> SA times those out fast enough to not be timed out by MailScanner.
>
> Generaly speaking, its a bayes opportunistic expiry. Check for bayes
> "expire" files floating about near your bayes DB.
>
> Short-term cleanup of the problem can be done by running sa-learn
> --force-expire, and using the command line options to point it at your
> bayes DB if it's not in the current user's home directory.
>
> Longer term solutions involve disabling bayes_auto_expire in local.cf (not
> spam.assassin.prefs.conf, local.cf), enabling MailScanners "Rebuild Bayes
> Every=" option, and a cron-job to run the sa-learn --force-expire once a
> day as a safety.
>
>
> At 10:50 AM 12/15/2004, Steen, Glenn wrote:
> >Not that I'm aware of, at least... Could it be that you (or your
> >provider,
> >if you use their forwaders) have a lookup problem? Can you do the bl
> >lookup
> >manually on the box?
> >
> >-- Glenn
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MailScanner mailing list
> > > [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of Sebastian G. Ruchti
> > > Sent: den 15 december 2004 16:31
> > > To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> > > Subject: Spamassassin Timeouts
> > >
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > since yesterday (14th) at about two a.m. messages received on
> > > my debian box
> > > with mailscanner 4.35.11 that had been running stable for
> > > quite some time
> > > now are no longer beeing handled by Spamassassin (3.001) as
> > > Spamassassin
> > > always times out (no matter how high I set the timeout setting in
> > > Mailscanner.conf).
> > >
> > > Has anyone experience sth. similar? Has some URL for SURBL or
> > > configuration
> > > changed?
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate any hint.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > > .sebastian
> > >
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