Re: [exim] spamd connection timing out

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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