SpamAssassin Timeouts

[Marcel Burggraeve]

> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to find more information regarding the 
> spamassassin timeouts I sometimes have... Some mails are 
> scanned very quickly, others timeout...
> 
> I've tried several things...
>   - disabling all online blocklists (ORBB-RBL, spamhaus.org, 
> spamcop.net, etc)
>   - disabling the enormous number of rulesets caused by rulesdujour
>   - updating spamassassin (and MailScanner) to the most 
> recent versions
>   - adjusting the timeout settings to a higher value (from 40 
> to 60 seconds).
> 
> spamassassin --lint does not report any errors...
> 
> These are the messages of maillog... it's not more detailed than this.
> 
> Jul  8 16:11:40 hal9000 MailScanner[32429]: SpamAssassin 
> timed out and was killed, failure 1 of 20 Jul  8 16:11:40 
> hal9000 MailScanner[32429]: SpamAssassin timed out and was 
> killed, failure 1 of 20
> 
> I'm not sure what to look for anymore...
> 
> Does anybody have suggestions? :)
> 
Hi,

Couple of months ago we had random timeouts as well.
After deleting all bayes db files and creating them again by feeding spam
and ham via sa-learn our problems were gone.

Best regards,

Marcel Burggraeve

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