SpamAssassin Timeouts

[Julian Field]

Check how fast your SpamAssassin is running.
Run
    MailScanner -debug -debug-sa
and thump Ctrl-S to freeze the output whenever it pauses. Thump Ctrl-Q 
to resume normal output again. That should give you an indication of 
anything that is running slowly. It may be dcc or razor or dns lookups 
taking a long time. They are the most likely candidates.

Jules.

Nick Brown wrote:
> Evening All,
>
> Apologies in advance if this has been previously covered however the search
> function for this list seems to be down currently.
>
> We have been running a Postifx + MailScanner (SpamAssassin / CLAMAV) server
> for a couple months with no issues to report. Works extremely well and the
> customers are only saying good things.
>
> Over the last couple of days we have been configuring a second server which
> today we went live with and configured a secondary MX records for all
> customers domains.
>
> Everything looks fine, configuration was pretty much identical to the first
> server.
>
> Since the volume of mail has increased however on the new server we are
> seeing every second or third email giving us the following in the headers
>
> X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam,
> SpamAssassin (Disabled due to 20 consecutive timeouts)
>
> A quick search through MailScanner.conf reveals the following are set with a
> value of 20;
>
> File Timeout = 20
> Ignore Spam Whitelist if Rec. Exceed = 20
>
> Custom Spam Scanner Timeout=20
> MCP Max SpamAssassin Timeouts = 20
>
> Note that both the customer scanner and MCP checks are disabled so I don't
> believe these should come into play.
>
> Nor do I believe the first two should be having an impact on standard emails
> that are clearly spam, and have no attachments.
>
> Any suggestions you have are much appreciated :-)
>
> Cheers
> Nick Brown. 
>
> Sent using the Microsoft Entourage 2004 for Mac Test Drive.
>
>
>   

Jules

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