[Fwd: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Particular emails forcing SA timeouts]

[Martin Hepworth]

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Steve

Steve Campbell wrote:
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>>As I've said before on previous threads I'm only using surbl.org (for
>>the URI scanning) and the spamcop-xbl (as a true RBL). I run a local
>>caching DNS server on the MS host and see very very few timeouts. When I
>>have lots of RBL's (the SA default if you turn on RBLS) I get lots of
>>timeouts and as consequence lots of spam leaks through.
>
>
> I am using the default SA RBLs + surbl.org. I could consider turning some of
> these off if this persists. It seems like there are so many that contribute
> such a small amount to the score, that a few less wouldn't make that much
> impact on the spam/not spam total.
>

well, that's what I see too when I run *all* the SA default
RBLS......lots of timeouts

May I suggest you give all of them but 1 or 2 a zero score in
spam.assassin.prefs.conf and the problem goes away with little effect on
the effectiveness of the results as you say.

I just run orbs + spamcop_xbl (self installed into the prefs file) and
the surbl.org stuff. all others have a zero score (ie turned off).

(off home now - see ya tomorrow)..


--
Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300

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