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[Rafael Angarita]

    Thanks for your soon answer,

 (Inline the answers to your questions)


Kevin Spicer wrote:

>On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 22:57, Rafael Angarita wrote:
>
>
>>    Hi,
>>
>>    We are running MailScanner + Spamassassin + Sendmail and we are
>>having a low rate of  detected spam (about 10% of our total incoming
>>mails),  when we check the delivered emails we can see that a lot of
>>them are not marked with the MailScanner headers indicating that they
>>are not being "analyzed" by MailScanner.
>>    We don't know  why the MailScanner is not processing all the mails
>>and we are trying to figure out how to increase the total scanned messages
>>
>>    The servers load is always less than 1%, the idle time is over 50%,
>>so we are not haevy loaded we can scan more messages.
>>
>>    Our MailScanner and SpamAsssin config is the default configuration
>>
>>    The environment is:
>>    - OS:  Solaris 9
>>    - sendmail 8.12.11
>>    - MailScanner 4.26.8
>>    - SpamAsssin  2.63
>>
>>    Does anybody could give me a suggestions to increae our total
>>scanned messages?
>>
>>
>
>Are you running a caching nameserver?  You may be experiencing DNS
>timeouts, running a caching nameserver will help.
>

    No, we are not running caching nameserver.
    We shutdown nscd (Solaris caching nameserver)

> There have also been some RBL's removed lately, due to their dead status (e.g. infinate
>monkeys) make sure you're not checking any of them in SA.
>
>
    We are not running RBL is this server

>Any clues in your maillog?
>
>
>
>
    This is a typical  extract of our logs (we are using solaris so we
use /var/log/syslog)
    We are  looking a lot of "New Batch: Forwarding 1 unscanned
messages" entries, but we don't know why it's forwarding messages unscanned


May 14 00:02:54 filter13 sendmail[26121]: [ID 801593 mail.info]
i4E42snQ026121:
to=<anez1asa at telcel.net.ve>, delay=00:00:00, mailer=smtp, pri=31769,
stat=queuedMay 14 00:02:55 filter13 MailScanner[11254]: New Batch:
Forwarding 1 unscanned messages, 2251 bytes
May 14 00:02:55 filter13 MailScanner[11254]: Spam Checks: Found 1 spam
messages
May 14 00:02:55 filter13 MailScanner[11254]: Virus and Content Scanning:
Starting




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Rafael Angarita
Administrador de Sistemas
Telcel Bellsouth
(+58212)(2009765)

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