Spamassassin Timeout issue.

[Swati Meghanand]

hi ram,

Thanks for ur help, running spamassassin in debugging mode helped me a lot.

I figured out that its not DNS related issue as spamassassin -D -t
/path/to/mail gave me.

[2646] dbg: dns: name server: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, family: 2, ipv6: 0
[2646] dbg: dns: testing resolver nameservers: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx,
 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
[2646] dbg: dns: trying (3) xxx.xxx...
[2646] dbg: dns: looking up NS for 'xxx.xxx'
[2646] dbg: dns: NS lookup of xxx.xxx using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx succeeded => DNS
available (set dns_available to override)
[2646] dbg: dns: is DNS available? 1

possibly not even RAZOR issue

[2646] dbg: razor2: part=0 engine=4 contested=0 confidence=0
[2646] dbg: razor2: results: spam? 0
[2646] dbg: razor2: results: engine 8, highest cf score: 0
[2646] dbg: razor2: results: engine 4, highest cf score: 0

yes  i got some trouble with Pyzor, but not always

sometimes i get following errors

[17573] dbg: util: executable for pyzor was found at /usr/bin/pyzor
[17573] dbg: pyzor: pyzor is available: /usr/bin/pyzor
[17573] dbg: info: entering helper-app run mode
[17573] dbg: pyzor: opening pipe: /usr/bin/pyzor check <
/tmp/.spamassassin17573LkAPartmp
[17778] dbg: util: setuid: ruid=0 euid=0
[17573] dbg: pyzor: [17778] finished: exit=0x0100
[17573] dbg: pyzor: got response: Traceback (most recent call last):\n File
"/usr/bin/pyzor", line 4, in ?\n pyzor.client.run()\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 934, in run\n
ExecCall().run()\n File "/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/client.py",
line 188, in run\n if not apply(dispatch, (self, args)):\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 264, in check\n
response = runner.run(server, (digest, server))\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 725, in run\n
response = apply(self.routine, varargs, kwargs)\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/client.py", line 57, in check\n msg
= CheckRequest(digest)\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/__init__.py", line 381, in
__init__\n typecheck(digest, str)\n File
"/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/pyzor/__init__.py", line 494, in
typecheck\n raise TypeError\nTypeError
[17573] dbg: info: leaving helper-app run mode
[17573] warn: pyzor: check failed: internal error

still not able to finget out the exact reason since this error is not coming
always...

Regards,

Swati Meghanand



2008/9/11 ram <ram at netcore.co.in>

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> On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 14:24 +0530, Swati Meghanand wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > 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,
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> > 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.
>
> Hi Swati,
> MailScanner Spamassassin timing out can be due to multiple reasons  most
> likely this is a DNS issue like others have said. It could also be a
> huge BAYES file or a blocked RAZOR port etc
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> Just check if your SA is still quering all the Dead DNS lists
> ( secuirtysage , ORDB , OPM BLITZED , DOB etc )
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> I would suggest take any mail and run
> spamassassin -D -t < /path/mail
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> different mail hops )
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> That test would most probably give you enough results to find what is
> taking time.
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