Mqueue.in huge

[Marcello Anderlini]

I beg your pardon but how can set my MTA (I use sendmail) to use blacklist
and to reject automaticaly email ?
I found how to disable spamassasin and yes disabling it the queue clear, so
?
Now I'm using again SBL-XBL as you suggested but I did not notice any
improvement.

Looking the log of spammassasin -D -t it seems it take a relative lot of
time to...
==================================================================
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: created
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock.netra.database.it.11306
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 0 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 1 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 2 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 3 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 4 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 5 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 6 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 7 retries
[11306] dbg: locker: safe_lock: trying to get lock on
/root/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist with 8 retries
==================================================================
Could be this my problem ? Should I turn off this feature and how this would
impact spam detection ?


Thanks again for your help.

Best regards

Dr. Marcello Anderlini
m.anderlini at database.it
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf
> Of Glenn Steen
> Sent: lunedì 12 febbraio 2007 15.20
> To: MailScanner discussion
> Subject: Re: Mqueue.in huge
>
> On 12/02/07, Marcello Anderlini <m.anderlini at database.it> wrote:
> > Hello to all,
> > I'm still unable to resolve by myself this problem and my
> mqueue.in is
> > stil huge.
> > I've just tried to use spamassassin -D -t and I get this :
> > ========================================
> > [31512] dbg: uridnsbl: query for ilbanner.com took 1
> seconds to look
> > up
> > (sbl.spamhaus.org.:2.246.22.217)
> > [31512] dbg: uridnsbl: query for youbuy.it took 1 seconds to look up
> > (sbl.spamhaus.org.:10.196.64.217)
> > ========================================
> >
> > But in my MailScanner.conf I set to use CBL and in my
> normal log I get
> > this
> > :
> > ==============
> >  RBL checks: l1CDWguL030057 found in CBL ==============
> >
> > So how can I to be sure what spamlist I'm using ? Maybe
> spamassassin
> > -D -t just use a different .conf ? How can I be sure
> spamassassin -D
> > -t would use my current configuration ?
> >
> > Thanks a lot for any suggestion
> >
> > Best regards
> Marcello,
>
> If you've set to use CBL in Spam Lists, then _MailScanner_
> will do that lookup and _unconditionally use the result for
> tagging the message as spam or not_... SpamAssassin has
> _nothing_ to do with this.
> SpamAssassin uses its own list of BLs by default... all the
> advice earlier (from Martin mostly;) is about "tuning" that list.
>
> Now, since MailScanner is a bit ... categoric... about the BL
> results, and the fact that MailScanner will do lookups
> _serialized_ (first list, second list etc) make many not use
> MailScanner for that at all.
> The reasoning is that if you trust the few lists you do in
> MailScanner so much, why then use them in the MTA to reject
> the mails out of hand instead.
>
> Having said that, if one has a situation like mine where laws (yes,
> laws) and to some extent policy prevent you from using BLs
> for rejections at the MTA level, then keeping one (at the
> most two) solid BLs (like SBL-XBL) in MS might be a good
> idea, and let the rest score through SA. Then be prepared
> that some messages will look like non-spam (low score) and
> still get tagged/quarantined as spam.
>
> I hope you don't have ORDB in MailScanners Spam Lists
> anymore, since that has gone offline (could cause the type of
> problem you describe).
>
> Hope this clears any confusion.
>
> When you did the spamassassin -D -t < /path/to/message ...
> did you see any noticeable pauses? If you disable
> SpamAssassin altogether, does that clear out your queues?
>
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
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