Spam assassin timeouts

[Glenn Steen]

2008/12/10 Glenn Steen <glenn.steen at gmail.com>:
> 2008/12/10 vinayan KP <mailwatch.kp at gmail.com>:
>> Dear Ram,
>>
>> Thank you very much for your mail.  I learned linux just recently I am
>> not an expert.  I normally used to try things whenever I get time but
>> now I hardly have any time these days to sit and feel dont have enough
>> knowledge to fix this problem.  A third party installed and configured
>> mailscanner for us couple of years back but that company does not
>> exist anymore. Hope you would be able to help me out.
>>
>> The following are the size of bayes file.  Are thse alright? The
>> bayes_seen file is too large but it was like this for a long time and
>> was working alright.
>>
>> -rw-------  1 root root 9.4K Dec 10 14:29 bayes_journal
>> -rw-rw-rw-  1 root root 5.7K Dec 10 14:29 bayes.mutex
>> -rw-------  1 root root 167M Dec 10 14:26 bayes_seen
>> -rw-------  1 root root 9.7M Dec 10 14:28 bayes_toks
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  9 10:35 bayes_toks.expire10686
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec 10 00:12 bayes_toks.expire11495
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  8 19:22 bayes_toks.expire11824
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  8 20:40 bayes_toks.expire13768
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec 10 07:48 bayes_toks.expire28490
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  7 21:22 bayes_toks.expire31832
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  2 04:04 __db.bayes_toks.expire12682
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 27 18:58 __db.bayes_toks.expire14247
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Sep  6 06:22 __db.bayes_toks.expire15605
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 14 14:38 __db.bayes_toks.expire15684
>> -rw-------  1 root root 4.0K Sep  2 07:48 __db.bayes_toks.expire1745
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  2 08:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire20880
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  6 00:18 __db.bayes_toks.expire23304
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  4 16:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire23851
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Oct 26 19:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire24361
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Sep  2 04:52 __db.bayes_toks.expire29096
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 11 17:37 __db.bayes_toks.expire30758
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Oct 23 18:31 __db.bayes_toks.expire31745
>> -rw-------  1 root root 4.0K Dec  9 05:28 __db.bayes_toks.expire32018
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Nov 21 04:07 __db.bayes_toks.expire32087
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Dec  5 15:17 __db.bayes_toks.expire3656
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Dec  4 05:45 __db.bayes_toks.expire5747
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Oct 22 16:03 __db.bayes_toks.expire7440
>> -rw-------  1 root root  12K Nov 26 16:21 __db.bayes_toks.expire7458
>> -rw-------  1 root root    0 Sep 18 00:39 __db.bayes_toks.expire9575
>> -rw-r--r--  1 root root 1.5K Dec  8 13:23 user_prefs
>>
> (snip)

BTW... Safest is to start these operations after shutting MailScanner down.

> This is classic... You have a huge seen file there, and a load of
> expire files from unsuccessful expire runs. Remove the seen file as
> well as all the expire files, then do a manual expire... Consider
> configuring your bayes for manual expire only. Also consider
> increasing the SA timeout value rather much ... in MailScanner.conf.
> MS will rudely cut off some SA operations otherwise. Exactly what you
> need, as well as where depend on your circumstances, so I'll refrain
> from giving any hard numbers.
> Removing the bayes_seen file will affect your ability to unlearn
> messages previously learnt, but ... that is likely something you can
> live with temporarily.
>
> As Ram says, this has been covered numerous times (and all the other
> reasons for SA to time out:-) on this list... and I'm almost certain
> you can find pertinent information in the wiki/maq as well.
>
> Cheers
> --
> -- Glenn
> email: glenn < dot > steen < at > gmail < dot > com
> work: glenn < dot > steen < at > ap1 < dot > se
>



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