Re: [exim] Timeout with spamassassin

W B Hacker schrieb:
> Balzi Andrea wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> Some time I've the follow message in to main.log file:
>>
>> spam acl condition: error reading from spamd socket: Connection timed
>> out
>>
>> How can increase the time out delay?
>>
>> Andrea
>>
>
> Sounds as if you are not limiting maximum size to be scanned, or not by enough,
> and are hitting a huge attachment now and then.
>

This happens often when spamassassin is updating the Bayes-Database.
I've set up a cron job which forces the updating every hour (sa-learn
--force-expire).

Not really a solution but it helps a little bit.

Reinhard