New Batch: found 200 messages waiting, Number keeps increasing

[Derek Catanzaro]

Mike Kercher wrote:
> mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info <> scribbled on :
>
>   
>>> What kind of firewall do you have in place?
>>>
>>> Mike
>>> --
>>>
>>>       
>> No firewall running on my linux box.  Security is
>> administered elsewhere by my WAN group.  I have the following
>> ports opened for this server:
>>
>>     *
>>       Regular tcp SMTP port (25) (of course...)
>>     *
>>       Razor2 tcp ports 2703 and 7 (outgoing)
>>     *
>>       Pyzor udp port 24441 (outgoing)
>>     *
>>       DCC udp port 6277 (outgoing)
>>     *
>>       Of course, DNS ports (outgoing)
>>
>> Derek
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I wonder if that might be part of your problem.  I've read where certain
> PIX firewalls and Cisco routers with older IOS versions can cause
> problems such as your timeout issues.  I'd also suspect that the
> spamassassin timeouts are due to sluggish DNS queries.  Are you using
> any RBL's in your MailScanner.conf?  If so, try disabling those and see
> if your queue processes any faster.
>
> Mike
> --
>   
I will see how things go in the morning.  Right now I'm back down to 
about 150 messages waiting which is normal for me.  It took most of the 
day and some of the night for it to chew through the nearly 10,000 that 
accumulated through the day.  I have not had an issue like this for some 
time and prior to this it was DNS queries causing the problem, that is 
when I implemented the local caching name server and it has been pretty 
solid since then.  I am using the following in MailScanner.conf.

Spam List = ORDB-RBL SBL+XBL

I will try your suggestions if the problem occurs again.  I appreciate the feedback.  Thanks for your help.

Derek


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