Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List Question

[Ian Lists]

In MailScanner.conf I have the following

Spam Checks = yes
Spam List = NJABL SORBS-SPAM spamhaus-ZEN spamcop.net SORBS-DUL    ( I have tested this with only 1, but still saw the timeouts.)

Rebuild Bayes Every = 86400             ( I just set this one, it was set to 0)  
Wait During Bayes Rebuild = yes

In mailscanner.cf

# skip_rbl_checks       1
rbl_timeout 20
razor_timeout 10
pyzor_timeout 10



For the DNS piece, are you suggesting I set the "skip_rbl_checks" to 0, or is it a different option you are referring to?


Thanks,

Ian


----- "Martin.Hepworth" <martinh at solidstatelogic.com> wrote:

> Ian
> 
> There's several things to help with SA timeouts.
> 
> Bayes
> 
> Dns
> 
> For bayes make sure you're expiring within MS and have the wait during
> cleanup set in mailscanner.conf
> 
> For DNS this is usually related to RBL's and the fact my default SA
> checks all its RBL's. So turn them all off (except for a couple you
> want) by giving that test a zero score in
> /etc/mail/spamassassin/mailscanner.cf.
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Martin Hepworth
> Snr Systems Administrator
> Solid State Logic
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: mailscanner-bounces at lists.mailscanner.info
> [mailto:mailscanner-
> > bounces at lists.mailscanner.info] On Behalf Of Ian Lists
> > Sent: 17 January 2008 14:26
> > To: mailscanner at lists.mailscanner.info
> > Subject: Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List Question
> >
> > If I have the "Spam Lists To Reach High Score" set to 1, is it
> still
> > necessary to set "Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List" to yes.  I am
> pretty
> > sure it isn't necessary, but I'm confused about this sentence in
> the
> > comment, "Setting this to "no" will reduce the load on your server,
> but
> > will stop the High Scoring Spam Actions from ever happening."  I'm
> having
> > an issue with SpamAssassin timeouts and have tried looking at
> everything
> > else.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ian
> >
> >
> > # If a message appears in at least this number of "Spam Lists" (as
> defined
> > # above), then the message will be treated as "High Scoring Spam"
> and so
> > # the "High Scoring Spam Actions" will happen. You probably want to
> set
> > # this to 2 if you are actually using this feature. 5 is high enough
> that
> > # it will never happen unless you use lots of "Spam Lists".
> > # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> > Spam Lists To Reach High Score = 1
> >
> >
> > # If the message sender is on any of the Spam Lists, do you still
> want
> > # to do the SpamAssassin checks? Setting this to "no" will reduce
> the load
> > # on your server, but will stop the High Scoring Spam Actions from
> ever
> > # happening.
> > # This can also be the filename of a ruleset.
> > Check SpamAssassin If On Spam List = yes
> >
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