Spamassassin Timeout issue.

[Alex Neuman van der Hans]

It's actually quite clearly indicating the opposite. You are not  
reading the logs right. If spamassassin is timing out, you need to  
take care of that. What caching nameserver are you running on that box?

Sent from my iPhone

On Sep 10, 2008, at 3:54 AM, "Swati Meghanand" <swati.meghanand at gmail.com 
 > wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using mailscanner on a busy mail gateways from serveral months,  
> which was working fine so far.From last few days I noticed incresed  
> no of spam mails as well log Filtering queues (ofcourse slow  
> processing of mailscanner).In log file of mailscanner I found  
> following lines,
>
> Sep 10 04:47:29 localhost MailScanner[11027]: Virus and Content  
> Scanning: Starting
> Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8400]: SpamAssassin timed out  
> and was killed, failure 8 of 20
> Sep 10 04:47:37 localhost MailScanner[8680]: SpamAssassin timed out  
> and was killed, failure 14 of 20
> Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8680]: Message 1KdL6x-0005q5- 
> L3 from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xxx.x) to xxx.xx is not spam, SpamAssassin  
> (not cached, timed out)
> Sep 10 04:47:38 localhost MailScanner[8400]: Message 1KdLDG-0006se- 
> Ox from xx.xx.xx.xx (xxx at xx.xxx) to xxx.xx is not spam, SpamAssassin  
> (not cached, timed out)
>
> it clealy indicates mailscanner is not (able to) scanning messages.
>
> Any idea about this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance :-)
>
> Regards
>
> Swati Meghanand
>
>
>
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