Mailscanner Spamassassin timing out

[Billy Pumphrey]

I searched the archive and found plenty about the errors of it timing
out, but I just cannot find out what the problem is.

 

Did I change anything?

Yes.  I added a few entries in the access file for REJECT.  I received no
errors on this file after I edited it.

 

What are the errors in the maillog.  Something like this:

0:15:00

Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2880]: alias database /etc/aliases
rebuilt

by bpumphrey

Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2880]: /etc/aliases: 64 aliases,
longest 28

 bytes, 657 bytes total

Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2889]: starting daemon (8.12.8):
SMTP

Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sm-msp-queue[2894]: starting daemon (8.12.8):
queuei

ng at 00:15:00

Nov 29 17:24:56 MailScanner sendmail[2900]: starting daemon (8.12.8):
queueing at 0

0:15:00

Nov 29 17:25:04 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner

version 4.25-14 starting...

Nov 29 17:25:13 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner

version 4.25-14 starting...

Nov 29 17:25:23 MailScanner MailScanner[2960]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner

version 4.25-14 starting...

Nov 29 17:25:34 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner

version 4.25-14 starting...

Nov 29 17:25:44 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: MailScanner E-Mail Virus
Scanner

version 4.25-14 starting...

Nov 29 17:25:53 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: Using locktype = flock

Nov 29 17:25:54 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: New Batch: Found 692
messages wai

ting

Nov 29 17:25:56 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages,

123697 bytes

Nov 29 17:25:56 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: Spam Checks: Starting

Nov 29 17:26:22 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: Using locktype = flock

Nov 29 17:26:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: New Batch: Found 692
messages wai

ting

Nov 29 17:26:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages,

82308 bytes

Nov 29 17:26:29 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: Spam Checks: Starting

Nov 29 17:27:10 MailScanner MailScanner[2925]: SpamAssassin timed out and
was ki

lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20

Nov 29 17:27:13 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: Using locktype = flock

Nov 29 17:27:18 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: New Batch: Found 692
messages wai

ting

Nov 29 17:27:18 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages,

370968 bytes

Nov 29 17:27:20 MailScanner MailScanner[2962]: Spam Checks: Starting

Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: Using locktype = flock

Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: New Batch: Found 692
messages wai

ting

Nov 29 17:27:24 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: New Batch: Scanning 30
messages,

402914 bytes

Nov 29 17:27:25 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: Spam Checks: Starting

Nov 29 17:27:44 MailScanner MailScanner[2957]: SpamAssassin timed out and
was ki

lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20

Nov 29 17:28:27 MailScanner MailScanner[2961]: SpamAssassin timed out and
was ki

lled, consecutive failure 1 of 20

 

For the full log, go here a http://www.indysmash.com/downloads/maillog

 

My spamassassin timeout was at the default of 10, then I rose it to
eventually 40 and the timeouts still happen.  The first things that were
appearing in the log were the spamassassin timeout, but first there were
RBL timeouts.  The log has the entries in there.  I then commented out
the RBL list in the MailScanner.conf and that did not help.  I also
restart the whole machine and that didn’t help.

 

Please let me know what more information that you need.

 

Thank you for your help.

 

Billy Pumphrey

IT Manager

Wooden & McLaughlin

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