Spam Assasin Timeouts

[Paul Houselander (SME)]

Hi List

 

I get a few complaints from users that Spam has got through, quite often
when I investigate the message I can see in the logs that that SpamAssassin
timed out and therefore scored zero.

 

Looking at logwatch an average day I would see

 

20166 messages Scanned by MailScanner

170 SpamAssassin timeout(s)

 

Im just after tips as to how to troubleshoot/minimize timeouts, sometimes
ive managed to get a copy of the message and ran spamassasin -t -D < message
and it works and scores fine, I don't think its down to load as the load
average rarely goes above 3.00 on this server. I also run a caching name
server

 

Ive also tried upping the SpamAssasin timeout from 60 to 120? 

 

Any other tips? I was thinking perhaps an option if spamassasin times out
the message could be put back in mqueue.in for a further attempt to scan the
message?

 

Kind Regards

 

Paul

 

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