On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 11:11:17PM -0500, David wrote:
> After installing Spamassassin onto my system, I seem to be getting lots
> of timeout problems. I have a pretty ancient system, so perhaps this is
> the problem.. It's a Pentium 166, 80 meg ram on a dialup connection.
>
> It seems that 30 or so emails don't give any problems, but when I get 90
> or so, I get many timeouts.
1) there are some settings in SA 2.30 and better to put a timeout on DNS
and razor queries, you should use them.
I use:
check_mx_attempts 2
check_mx_delay 1
rbl_timeout 30
2) Set this in SA's local.cf too:
timelog_path /var/log/salogs/current/
It will keep a trace of all the message processing and show you were
SA got held up
3) If you use sa-exim, you can set a timeout on the whole SA process to
avoid those timeouts.
http://marc.merlins.org/linux/exim/sa.html
> As noted above, however, this message timed out at 5 minutes.. so.. what
> timeout would affect this, and is it alterable?
I'm not sure what that timeout would be in exim.
> Is there some way to fix this, or do I just not have enough horsepower
> to run Spamassassin?
You might a bit low
> The only other possibility I've considered is whether Spamassassin
> checks the online rbl databases on each download, or each message(?)
On each message, but your DNS server should cache the answers for domains
that you query all the time.
Marc
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