Nice to know that others are getting it as well. No we are not getting
it for all the messages - it just on odd occasions - every 10 - 15 mins.
We can access DNS servers very quickly - on a 1GB network like the MTA
machines running SpamAssassin. Does SA caches the site name/address?
Sujit
On 2009-03-04 16:15, Graeme Fowler wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:36 +0000, Sujit Acharyya-Choudhury wrote:
> > Just to clarify the exim spamd config is as follows in the data section: >
> Looks sane enough.
>
> However, this is a SpamAssassin problem, not Exim. Exim is reporting to > you that a specific SA connection timed out - which implies that the SA > child handling the connection wedged in some way.
>
> Is SA setup to do a lot of DNS lookups or other online tests? Can you be > absolutely sure that these aren't causing some scans to go slowly - eg. > if a TCP session has to be opened to some external app or service, is
> that working?
>
> You might want to turn up the debug level in SA, or do some other type > of connection tracking so you know exactly which message the child was > processing when it timed out.
>
> We also see this, but I usually ignore it unless it's for every single > message...
>
> Graeme
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