MS spamassassin timeouts

[Julian Field]

Check your Bayes database isn't screwed, or locked solid by some other 
process.
That's where the problem lies, almost certainly.

"spamassassin -D" won't try to learn from the message, whereas 
MailScanner will.

On 04/02/2010 15:41, Jason Ede wrote:
>
> I’m getting quite a few Spamassassin has timed out and was killed in 
> my maillog...
>
> When I look at the message that was casuing the problem and try 
> running it through spamassassin manually with
>
> Spamassassin –D –p /etc/MailScanner/spam.assassin.prefs –t <messagefile
>
> Then it completes ok and gives the message a score. It only takes a 
> few seconds to run so well below any SA timeouts that I’ve set in 
> MailScanner. If I try running it through MailScanner with the –debug 
> –debug-sa –id=messageID then it seems to go through up until the 
> following point where it hangs...
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: learn: auto-learn? ham=0.1, spam=12, 
> body-points=-3.999, head-points=-3.999, learned-points=-5
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: learn: auto-learn? yes, ham (-3.999 < 0.1)
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: learn: initializing learner
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: learn: learning ham
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: eval: all '*From' addrs: 
> bounce.25900379 at gorkanadatabase.com gorkanaalerts at gorkana.com
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: eval: all '*To' addrs: XXX at XXXX.org.uk
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: bayes: database connection established
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: bayes: found bayes db version 3
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: bayes: Using userid: 2
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: bayes: 
> c4841420914b788941701d213ff2b0d78571a6da at sa_generated already learnt 
> correctly, not learning twice
>
> 15:35:00 [32217] dbg: learn: initializing learner
>
> Any suggestions about what to check next?
>
> Centos 5.4 with MS 4.78.17 & SA 3.2.5
>

Jules

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