Simon,
Just had an idea. The timeout from SpamAssass. might be because it's
trying to do an RBL lookup. Have you disabled this in the SpamAssass.
config file? It's better to let exim do the RBL lookup as an acl.
Apologies if you've already thought of this.
I've got :
skip_rbl_checks 1
set in my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file.
HTH.
Glenn
> >
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm back and it is all working with no errors, but I am really
>> puzzled as to why.
>>
>[SNIP]
>>
>> spamclog being a script containing
>> #!/bin/bash
>> /usr/bin/tee -a /home/spamc-logs/spamc-in.log | /usr/bin/spamc | tee -a
>> /home/spamc-logs/spamc-out.log
>>
>> This meant I could see what was being sent to spamc and what spamc
>> was sending back. Next I just had to wait for it to go wrong
>> and then examine the log files. But it hasn't gone wrong since
>> I started logging all the traffic 5 days ago!! Before I started
>> logging it would go wrong maybe 10 time a day.
>
>Don't you sometimes really, really hate computers?
>
>Having worked for 5 days it let me send an email telling you all it
>was working as it should. Then it went wrong!! Aaagghh.
>So it looks like just logging the traffic hasn't fixed it, just
>drastically reduced the error rate.
>
>Monday evening an email from buqtraq got bounced and I managed to get
>all traffic to/from spamc. Apart from the headers added by spamc the
>input and output are identical. To my uneducated mind this points to
>Exim possibly being the culprit and not spamc.
>
>Or is it? I may have just noticed something that helps a lot. In all
>the cases of the error that I have just checked back on, 5 minutes has
>elapsed since receiving the mail and the error ocurring. I'm no
>programmer but a quick grep through the source code and I found:
>
>globals.c:int smtp_receive_timeout = 5*60;
>
>Could this be the source of the problem? Spamc must be either hanging
>or dragging its heels in passing the mail back to Exim, which is timeing
>out, giving me my error. Shouldn't Exim mention this timeout in the log
>though instead of the 'returned 2' error?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Simon Barr
>Systems Engineer
>
>Chelsing Assemblies Ltd
>Tel: 01992 554-566
>Fax: 01992 553-644
>E-mail: simon.barr@???
>
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