Spam Assasin Timeouts

[Scott Silva]

on 3-24-2008 12:15 PM Mogens Melander spake the following:
> On Mon, March 24, 2008 19:17, Scott Silva wrote:
>> on 3-24-2008 6:44 AM Mogens Melander spake the following:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>> I'm also seeing "a lot" of "Message Content Protection SpamAssassin timed out and was killed".
>>>
>>> The number of messages recieved per day is stable between 1500 and 2500.
>>>
>>> I've been looking at log-files, and can't find anyting to put my finger on, other than the
>>> number
>>> of timeout's per date, and system load (increased from 0.1 to 0.3):
>>>
>>> "Mar 10"   0 timeout's
>>> "Mar 11"   0 timeout's
>>> "Mar 12"   0 timeout's (Updated from MailScanner-4.60.8 to MailScanner-4.67.6-1)
>>> "Mar 13"   0 timeout's
>>> "Mar 14"   0 timeout's
>>> "Mar 15"   0 timeout's
>>> "Mar 16"  82 timeout's
>>> "Mar 17" 141 timeout's
>>> "Mar 18"  45 timeout's
>>> "Mar 19" 156 timeout's
>>> "Mar 20" 130 timeout's
>>> "Mar 21" 110 timeout's
>>> "Mar 22" 723 timeout's
>>>
>>> Hmm, watching the maillog scroll up on the console, i notice that every "MCP Checks: Starting"
>>> results in a timeout.
>>
>>
>> MCP rules are stored in /etc/MailScanner/mcp. What do you have there?
>>
>> AFAIR you need a v320.pre file in that directory with a minimum of the following;
>>
>>       # Check - Provides main check functionality
>>       #
>>       loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check
>>
> 
> MailScanner --lint and spamassassin --lint don't give any errors.
> 
> $ MailScanner --lint
> Trying to setlogsock(unix)
> Checking version numbers...
> Version number in MailScanner.conf (4.67.6) is correct.
> 
> Your envelope_sender_header in spam.assassin.prefs.conf is correct.
> 
> Checking for SpamAssassin errors (if you use it)...
> SpamAssassin temp dir = /var/spool/MailScanner/incoming/SpamAssassin-Temp
> SpamAssassin reported no errors.
> MailScanner.conf says "Virus Scanners = clamavmodule"
> Found these virus scanners installed: clamavmodule
> ===========================================================================
> Virus Scanner test reports:
> ClamAVModule said "eicar.com was infected: Eicar-Test-Signature"
> 
> If any of your virus scanners (clamavmodule)
> are not listed there, you should check that they are installed correctly
> and that MailScanner is finding them correctly via its virus.scanners.conf.
> 
> I got one v320.pre in /etc/MailScanner/mcp
> 
> $ cat /etc/MailScanner/mcp/v320.pre
> 
> # Check - Provides main check functionality
> #
> loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::Check
> 

Since you are not using MCP, do you by any chance have it enabled by mistake?


# MCP (Message Content Protection)
# -----------------------------
#
# This scans text and HTML messages segments for any banned text, using
# a 2nd copy of SpamAssassin to provide the searching abilities.
# This 2nd copy has its own entire set of rules, preferences and settings.
# When used together with the patches for SpamAssassin, it can also check
# the content of attachments such as office documents.
#
# See http://www.mailscanner.info/mcp.html for more info.
#

MCP Checks = no





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