[CLUG] MailScanner problem

[adam]

Just an endnote on the MailScanner problem, for the archives.

It turned out to be timeouts: I increased the spamassassin timeout from
the default 75 seconds to 120 seconds; and had bayes expiries and
housekeeping performed nightly, rather than during messages handling.

A few mails were still skipping spamassassin so I increased the timeout
again to 180 seconds, and I now seem to be back to a nice clean mailbox;
aside from few lowscoring messages.

Thanks to Matt Kettler for the answer, from a 2004 post on the
SpamAssassin mailing list.

http://www.mailarchives.org/list/spam-assassin/msg/2004/11937

adam

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adam wrote:
>> Ok. Which MTA are you using?
>>
> Sendmail.
> 
>> You need to look at expanding your rules. I'd strongly recommend using
>> some of the SARE ones and using Rules Du Jour to keep it up to date.
>>
>> Depending on who you are handling mail for you could also consider using
>> one or two of the DNSBLs to drop mail completely
>>
> I'm using RDJ and I'm using some RBLs:
> 
> Spam List = ORDB-RBL SBL+XBL spamcop.net
> 
>> It sounds like you might have both the MTA and MailScanner running side
>> by side. What could happen is that instead of you symlinking the
>> mailscanner init script to the MTA init script you still have both
>> inits, so a percentage of your mail is being handled by the MTA only.. .
>> though from what you say this might not be happening.
>>
> The fact that I had clean mail for a day after tweaking MailScanner the
> other day could back that up, but by rights it shouldn't be so: the init
> script for sendmail is still in /etc/init.d, but it's disabled. When I
> view the init script in Webmin it says it's running, but I'm pretty sure
> this is correct behaviour as the same thing happens on my other box.
> 
> It's possible some cron job is playing feck with it, but it doesn't seem
> to be logrotate and I'm not sure what else it could be. I'll poke
> around, see what jumps out at me.
> 
>> It's all in MailScanner.conf
>>
>> What you want to look at is your logging settings and which things you
>> want to log.
>>
> Ta. Completely blasted by them while looking for SpamAssassin settings.
> 
> adam
> 
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