MailScanner[31525]: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, co nsecutive failure 1 of 20

[Kevin Miller]

If the network is slow, or any RBLs that spamassassin is using are
congested, or probably a half dozen other reasons you'll get the occaisional
time out.  The phrase "1 of 20" is the key.  In other words, it will try 20
times before giving up.  If you see a series of those going up to "20 of 20"
you have a problem.  If it's just the odd timeout here and there it's the
email equivilant of hitting a slow web page.  I think...


...Kevin
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-----Original Message-----
From: Idan Plotnik [mailto:idan at SECURENET.CO.IL]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 11:50 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner[31525]: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed,
consecutive failure 1 of 20



But I don't use Razor's servers!





Regards,

Idan Plotnik
SecureNet Ltd, Israel
E-Mail: idan at securenet.co.il
Office: +972-03-7544626
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We Certify Secured Networks


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From: Casanova, Chase [mailto:Chase.Casanova at RDU.COM]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 10:53 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner[31525]: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed,
consecutive failure 1 of 20



I've been getting several of these lately too.  Do you happen to be using
Razor with SpamAssassin?  I think Razor's servers are getting congested at
certain times of the day and causing the SpamAssassin calls from MailScanner
to time out.  I'm not sure if there is a way to tell SpamAssassin to let
Razor timeout and continue with other checks.



Thanks,

Chase



-----Original Message-----
From: Idan Plotnik [mailto:idan at SECURENET.CO.IL]
Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 2004 1:40 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: [MAILSCANNER] MailScanner[31525]: SpamAssassin timed out and was
killed, consecutive failure 1 of 20

Hi All,



Someone can tell me the reason for this error that appear in my maillog?



"MailScanner[31525]: SpamAssassin timed out and was killed, consecutive
failure 1 of 20"



I read about this and I found out the it can be a DNS problem but not In my
case.

I think that because of this problem a lot of spam is getting into my
organization.



Thanks a lot.



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