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Author: Todd Lyons
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To: Jim Pazarena
CC: Exim
Subject: Re: [exim] slow server response in accepting local smtp emails
cat local_test.eml | spamassassin -D

On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 10:07 PM, Jim Pazarena <exim@???> wrote:
> Jeremy Harris wrote, On 2013-04-03 1:19 PM:
>
>> On 04/03/2013 08:58 PM, Jim Pazarena wrote:
>>>
>>> I am trying to find out why locally generated emails take so long to be
>>> accepted by my mail server.
>>
>>
>> The first question is - by "locally generated" do you mean
>> "talks to your exim by some other means than SMTP", or
>> "talks using SMTP, but from the local machine".
>>
>> If the latter, I'd be looking first for ident-protocol checks (giving
>> up after a timeout) second for RDNS issues. Most people find
>> the former worthless these days, and disable them (look for
>> "rfc1413_query_timeout" in
>>
>> http://www.exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_default_configuration_file.html
>> ).
>> You could grab a packet trace for the connection.
>>
>
> My rfc1413 is disabled, as is rdns for local IPs.
>
> However I found that local emails were being assessed by spam-assassin.
> And spam-assassin seems to take 10-15 seconds per message, so I
> exempted my local subnets from spamd interrogation, which seems to
> have sped up local acceptance of emails.
>
> What is the 'usual' time it takes for spam assassin to traverse a
> message? I see error messages in the SA log:
>
> "warn: bayes: cannot open bayes databases /var/s
> pool/spamd/.spamassassin/bayes_* R/W: lock failed: Interrupted system call"
>
> which certainly could be the source of my slowness.
> Now to determine what THAT issue is...
>
> hints? thanks!
>
>
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