spamassassin timeouts question

[Julian Field]

At 17:30 06/01/2004, you wrote:
>
>I don’t understand how this can happen with a message

>
>X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (timed out)
>
>When the configuration is so

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>Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 10
>
>And the only log message I see is
.
>
>Jan  6 09:10:43 defender MailScanner[11056]: SpamAssassin timed out and 
>was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 10
>
>I am not seeing failure 2 of 10 and so on
.

It is succeeding some times and failing other times. It needs to hit 10 
consecutive timeouts before SpamAssassin network checks are disabled. 20 
consecutive timeouts (including the above 10) will cause SpamAssassin to be 
disabled altogether. Even if it keeps failing, it's usually due to network 
checks which is why the behaviour is slightly cleverer than the simple 
configuration option suggests.
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