MS Hanging

Julian Field MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk
Thu Aug 2 10:35:53 IST 2007


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Oh my!
You shouldn't list more than 1 or 2 spam lists there. This many will run 
very slowly!
Let SpamAssassin look them up for you, it does them in parallel.
I would just advise
Spam List = spamhaus-ZEN
You also have dead lists and many overlaps in there.

UxBoD wrote:
> Hi Glenn,
>
> Spam List = ORDB-RBL spamhaus.org spamhaus-XBL spamhaus-ZEN spamcop.net NJABL CBL RSL DSBL BLITZEDALL SORBS-DNSBL SORBS-HTTP SORBS-SOCKS SORBS-MISC SORBS-SMTP SORBS-WEB SORBS-SPAM SORBS-BLOCK SORBS-ZOMBIE SORBS-DUL SORBS-RHSBL
>
> Spam List Timeout = 15
>
> but have dropped it down too 10 now.
> Regards,
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Glenn Steen" <glenn.steen at gmail.com>
> To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info>
> Sent: Thursday, August 2, 2007 10:10:52 AM (GMT) Europe/London
> Subject: Re: MS Hanging
>
> On 02/08/07, UxBoD <uxbod at splatnix.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Glenn,
>>
>> I lowered the batch queue size to 10 to force things through faster.  This has got us over the initial problem, but still 1600 messages in the queue to process :( Damn those spammers!
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>>     
> Could be an RBL going slightly bonkers for you .... Since all the
> children said "Checking SPAM lists"... What lists do you have in
> MailScanner?
>
> Cheers
>   

Jules

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