Some messages not being spam scanned?

Andy Moran andy at WILDBRAIN.COM
Thu Jan 15 01:06:18 GMT 2004


I removed the Infinite-Monkeys RBL.

But I still get occasional messages with no Spam header as if
MailScanners skipped it.. and I don't see any SpamAssassin timeout
messages in the logs.

Any other thoughts?

--Andy

Julian Field wrote:
> Stop using Infinite-Monkeys. I don't think it exists any more.
>
> At 18:59 14/01/2004, you wrote:
>
>> I do have lots of  "timed out" messages from MailScanner in my maillog,
>> but they are all RBL Check timeouts l ike so:
>>
>> Jan 14 03:01:18 hermes MailScanner[1812]: RBL Check ORDB-RBL timed out
>> and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
>> Jan 14 03:02:10 hermes MailScanner[7565]: RBL Check Infinite-Monkeys
>> timed out and was killed, consecutive failure 1 of 7
>>
>> But it's never consecutive enough to disable those RBL checks for good..
>>  I don't see any "timed out" messages for SpamAssassin...
>>
>> Could these RBL timeouts cause MailScanner to skip the spamassassin test?
>>
>> --Andy
>>
>> Peter Bonivart wrote:
>>
>>> I know it's not because of the HABEAS headers because I get those as
>>> well as the SA report. Could it be that you had a timeout from SA? Look
>>> for "timed out" in your mail log.
>>>
>>> /Peter Bonivart
>>>
>>> --Unix lovers do it in the Sun
>>>
>>> Sun Fire V210, Solaris 9, Sendmail 8.12.10, MailScanner 4.25-14,
>>> SpamAssassin 2.61 + DCC 1.2.21, ClamAV 0.65 + GMP
>>>
>>> Andy Moran wrote:
>>>
>>>> One of our users suggested that perhaps MailScanner
>>>> honored those  Habeus headers..  I was almost insulted at the
>>>> suggestion.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any way I can figure out why MailScanner isn't giving these a
>>>> spam score?
>
>
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