Too messages in Hold folder when spamassassin is activated in MailScanner

Sun Nov 25 20:22:09 GMT 2007

On Nov 25, 2007 2:46 PM, Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 25/11/2007, Israel Garcia <igalvarez at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm running MailScanner-4.65-3.1(with DCC, razor2, pyzor) on a
> > CentOS4.5 Linux server. I installed too the package
> > install-Clam-0.91.2-SA-3.2.3.tar.gz in order to activate spamassassin
> > with mailscanner. I ran spamassassin -D --lint and there's no problem
> > in my configuration files. I also see in maillog file the spamassassin
> > doing its work with spam:
> >
> > Nov 25 04:54:51 hostname  MailScanner[20611]: Message B25732B1DB.A9A63
> > from 75.93.188.141 (jerrimy at donin.com) to mydomain.com is spam,
> > SBL+XBL, spamcop.net, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=30.984, required
> > 6, DCC_CHECK 1.37, FH_HELO_EQ_D_D_D_D 0.50, FS_REPLICA 1.18,
> > HELO_DYNAMIC_IPADDR2 4.39, HTML_MESSAGE 0.00, RATWARE_MS_HASH 2.78,
> > RATWARE_OUTLOOK_NONAME 0.00, RCVD_IN_BL_SPAMCOP_NET 2.19, RCVD_IN_XBL
> > 2.90, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.10, SARE_SPEC_REPLICA_OBFU 1.81,
> > SARE_SPEC_ROLEX_NOV5A 1.06, TVD_RCVD_IP 1.62, URIBL_AB_SURBL 1.61,
> > URIBL_BLACK 1.96, URIBL_JP_SURBL 2.86, URIBL_OB_SURBL 2.13,
> > URIBL_SC_SURBL 2.52)
> >
> > Everything is fine BUT, when I run "qshape hold" I see the HOLD folder
> > is FULL of messages waiting to be processed, I mean thousands of mails
> > waiting and there is a long delay in delivering.
> > My link to internet is not full, I mean I see the normal traffic.
> >
> > So, when I turn off spamassassin in MailScanner.conf there's almost no
> > messages in HOLD foder.
> >
> > My questions are:
> >
> > 1. How can I speed the spamassassin process in my server?
> Use a caching only DNS, limit what you check (RBLs etc).... There are
> some things to do:-)
>

I have in this server a caching only DNS...

>
> > 2. Do I have to use all the plugins (DCC, razor2, pyzor, spamcop, and
> > others that comes activated by default  when I install spamassassin
> > package)?
> No. But they all contribute something:-). WRT Pyzor, make sure you use
> the "alternative" server, the official one will likely just time out.
> What modules do you load?

I use DCC, razor2, pyzor and all the stuff from /etc/mail/spamassassin
config files:

-rw-r--r--  1 root root   1089 Jun  2 13:40 init.pre
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     41 Jun  2 21:43 local.cf ->
/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root     41 Nov 24 11:00 mailscanner.cf ->
/etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf
drwxr-xr-x  3 root root   4096 Nov 24 15:43 old
drwxr-xr-x  2 root root   4096 Nov 25 05:05 RulesDuJour
drwx------  2 root root   4096 Nov 25 05:08 sa-update-keys
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   2439 Jun  2 14:03 v310.pre
-rw-r--r--  1 root root    922 Jun  2 13:39 v312.pre
-rw-r--r--  1 root root   2299 Jun  2 13:40 v320.pre

>
> > 3. Maybe offtopic, sorry.. but does anybody knows any rules on the MTA
> > (postfix) in order to stop spam before it gets to
> > mailscanner/spamassassin?
> You can implement all the usual stuff (look at the UCE advice at
> www.postfix.org->Documentation... The cheat sheet is pretty good
> advice. This page:
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:how_to:setup_smtp_filtering
> has some interrest too:-), and of course... Don't accept mail for
> unknown users. You can either use the *_recipient_maps settings (with
> "static" maps) as described in the mailscanner Wiki
> (
> http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:configuration:mta:postfix:how_to:reject_non_existent_users
> ),
> or use address verification (also mentioned in the wiki, and has it's
> own page in the postfix docs...;-).

I'm running to read them NOW! :-)

>
>
> > 4. Does anybody knows some perfect setup (best perfomance) to install
> > mailscanner with spamssassin? some link? some tutorial?
> Perfect is too much to aim for;-). I usually try for functional:-):-)

:-) :-) .. thanks a lot Glenn

regards,

Israel

>
>
> >
> > I have used mailscanner for several years I really love it. Any ideas
> > will be accepted.
> >
> > thanks in advance!
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> > Regards;
> > Israel Garcia
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Israel Garcia
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