Unfortunately by default Mailscanner gives SA 30 seconds to run, and SpamAssassin gives a 30 second timeout to DNS blacklist lookups. Hence, anytime a DNSBL becomes unavailable, by default SA will get killed by MS.
Either decrease SpamAssassin's DNS blacklist timeout, or increase MailScanner's SpamAssassin timeout.
I changed SpamAssassin's timeout for DNSBLs editing MailScanner's spam.assassin.user.prefs to include:
#the following reduces the time for a run of SA
#but risks timing out valid blacklist data or falsely claiming no mx for from.
#it is still better to timeout a blacklist than
#to have mailscanner timeout SA and skip it entirely
check_mx_attempts 2
check_mx_delay 3
rbl_timeout 10
razor_timeout 10
I changed MailScanner's maximum SA run time by editing mailscanner.conf:
SpamAssassin Timeout = 40
At 10:59 AM 10/24/2002 -0400, Stephen Groundwater wrote:
I've been seeing a lot of messages slip into our system which have no SA score assigned. X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin ()Can someone shed light on how these are getting through? Enclosed is a sample header. I'd also be curious if others have seen this problem. (I did try looking for answers in the mail archive, maybe I missed something) Thanks in advance. Steve G CLIP ----------- Received: from webshield([10.1.1.21]) by pa-gwpri2.klehr.com; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 19:05:13 -0400 Received: FROM spambuster.klehr.com BY webshield ; Sat Oct 19 18:59:17 2002 -0400 Received: from servidor.altran.com.br (IDENT:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [200.207.42.122]) by spambuster.klehr.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9JN2dF27186; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 19:02:39 -0400 Received: from lycoseumailbox.caramail.com (ppp-63-198-17-135.dialup.chic01.pacbell.net [63.198.17.135]) by servidor.altran.com.br (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA04267; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 21:10:14 -0200 Message-ID: <0000177f3d23$00002cfb$[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: "Jimmy Asher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: i need to talk to you about your septic tank VHDQXB Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 15:53:16 -1900 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck-SPAMBUSTER: not spam, SpamAssassin () ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4729346;7592162;s?http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
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