Mailscanner Taking to long to Process Incoming Email

[Lucio Montenegro]

Found the culprit. It was the ClamAV slowing down the flow of email. It was
spiking my cpu 100%. THis system has not been touched for about a month. I
wonder why that would start? Any ideas?

On 6/24/07, Julian Field <MailScanner at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
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> Lucio Montenegro wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> > I currently have the current setup:
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> > Fedora Core 5
> > MailScanner
> > Spamassassin
> > ClamAV
> >
> > All Messages are forwarded to my internal exchange server. I noticed
> > that all messages are taking at least 250 seconds or more to process:
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> > Jun 24 09:57:20 localhost MailScanner[9392]: Batch (1 message)
> > processed in 277.04 seconds
> > Jun 24 09:57:36 localhost MailScanner[9155]: Batch (1 message)
> > processed in 273.49 seconds
> > Jun 24 09:57:46 localhost MailScanner[9160]: Batch (1 message)
> > processed in 269.35 seconds
> >
> > This all started after a couple of weeks when I created a cron job to
> > learn spam every 8 hours:
> >
> > user --showdots --mbox --spam /var/mail/usermailbox
> >
> > I since then disabled the cron job and now I want to lower the process
> > time. Your help is appreciated.
> What timeouts do you have set in MailScanner.conf?
> What else does your maillog say for each of these batches?
>
> Jules
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