Some messages dont get scanned ... how to debug it?

[Mikael Syska]

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:36 PM, Scott Silva <ssilva at sgvwater.com> wrote:
> on 5-18-2009 1:04 PM Mikael Syska spake the following:
>> Hi
>>
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 1:16 PM, Alex Broens <ms-list at alexb.ch> wrote:
>>> On 5/18/2009 12:40 PM, Mikael Syska wrote:
>>>> Hi list,
>>>>
>>>> I have some problems with my MailScanner installation.
>>>>
>>>> OS: FreeBSD 7.0
>>>> MailScanner: MailScanner-4.75.11
>>>> SpamAssassin: SpamAssassin-3.2.5
>>>>
>>>> Some mails dont get tagged as spam ... but if I run:
>>>> spamassassin -t < email
>>>>
>>>> Most if not all messages get a score over 30 ... so its not all the
>>>> time the messages dont get scanned.
>>>>
>>>> How did it start:
>>>> Updated sa-rules official rules
>>>> Installed FuzzyOcr witch is disabled now ...
>>>>
>>>> I have updated from mailscanner version 46.7.x to 4.75.11 ( hoped this
>>>> would maybe solve the problem, but no luck ...
>>>>
>>>> So ... how do I start debugging it ... I'm lost here. Since its not
>>>> all messages that dont get scanned.
>>> Is there a pattern in the msg size?
>>
>> There are not any patern in the size ... as most spam we get are below
>> 10 kbyte ... so are the size of all the spam mails that are not tagged
>> with anything ... not even BAYES :-s
>>
> Any "spamassassin timed out..." messages in the logs?

Not that I can see ... I guess "timeout" from spamassassin should show
up in the logs per default without turning DEBUG on for either MS or
SA ...

I saw some:
May 18 09:52:04 spam02 MailScanner[1220]: Disabled RBL DSBL as reached
7/10 timeouts

But ... it just disables that RBL list ... it was DSBL and I know its
dead now ... 2 month ago, but now its gone. But this have not been the
problem.

So ... I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong ... :-)

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