Spamassassin timeouts

[Martin Hepworth]

Hi

normally this is either due to

1) DNS issues (lots of RBLs - have you got most of them turned off?),

2) bayes (have you got this running on a faster SDBM database than the
default
http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=documentation:anti_spam:spamassassin:bayes:sdbm&s=bayes

3) or things like DCC/pyzor/razor.

Another thing to check is the SA-timeout value in MailScanner.conf, I
normally raise this well above the 75 default to around 300 at least.


-- 
Martin Hepworth
Oxford, UK

2009/7/23 Jonas Akrouh Larsen <jonas at techbiz.dk>

>  Hi List
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> Hope everyone is enjoying the summer.
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> I got an annoying problem with SA timeouts.
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> For the past week my sampling shows that out of 51037 mails, spamassassin
> timed out on 66 of them.
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> This is not a big percentage obviously, but it bothers me that I have a
> pretty decent protection scheme setup which lets very few spams through.
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> I’d actually guess that SA time outs creates as many false positives (as in
> mails MS thinks are ham) as actual spam slipping through my anti-spam rules.
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> I was wondering if there was any way to make MS refuse to have SA timeouts
> (or maybe make it configureable to atleast try the mail again for x number
> of times before we accept to let the mail pass MS without having been
> scanned by SA)
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> I don’t think this is possible with the current version of MS.
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> Also note that simply increasing the sa timeout isn’t as good a solution as
> the confirable “rety behavior (in my opinion atleast)
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> So am I alone in thinking this would be a neat addition to MS, or what do
> people think/do with sa timeouts in general?
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> Med venlig hilsen / Best regards
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> Jonas Akrouh Larsen
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