Spamassassin exceeded time limit, not stopping spam

[James Gray]

On Mon, 8 May 2006 17:50, bsnottum at hkskole.no wrote:
> Hallo!
>
> I am running mailscanner-4.44.6-2 on fc2 - yes I know it is old and I
> will set up a new server shortly. Anyway I have a problem with
> spamassassin that I really need to solve before I build the new server.
>
> My problem is that spamassassin does not stop spam! In the mail-header it
> says: not spam - exceeded time limit. If I restart mailscanner it works
> for a while - a few minutes, but after this the error starts again.
>
> Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here?

These errors are usually due to either an RBL timing out or a spamassassin 
plugin (helper) not configured correctly, eg, pyzor, razor2, dcc etc.

Best plan is to run a lint test with full debug output:

spamassassin -p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf --lint -D 2>&1 | 
less

(all on one line).  Watch the shell redirection (2>&1) - as written above 
will probably bork on standard Bourne shells ("sh") but should work fin in 
bash/zsh.

Have a GOOD look at the output, and hunt down anything that refers to time 
outs, crashes, missing configs, etc.  Keep in mind time outs can be due to 
firewalls blocking traffic to/from the helpers etc.  RBL's are generally 
implemented with DNS (tcp+udp/53).  Spamassassin's wiki has some good 
articles on what ports are required for different helpers (I believe the 
MailScanner wiki also has a page dedicated to this area too).

If in doubt post back the lint results here and/or the spamassassin list.

Cheers,

James
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