[Mimedefang] Timeout errors

[Jeff Grossman]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mimedefang-admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com [mailto:mimedefang-
> admin at lists.roaringpenguin.com] On Behalf Of David F. Skoll
> Sent: Wednesday, December 25, 2002 6:19 PM
> To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
> Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Timeout errors
> 
> On Tue, 24 Dec 2002, Jeff Grossman wrote:
> 
> > How do I get MIMEDefang to stop with the timeout errors.  None of
these
> > messages were checked by MIMEDefang, but were delivered anyway.  Is
> > there a value I can change somewhere?
> 
> As you discovered, the problem lay with Razor.  In general, a timeout
error
> means MIMEDefang is taking too long to do something.  (Surprise! :-))
> 
> Once you've eliminated everything you control (sufficient CPU power,
> sufficient RAM, fast enough disk, valid filter rules), the usual
culprit
> is something you don't control, like poor network performance or
another
> server that's down.  That's probably what happened with Razor.
> 

Thanks for the information, David.  I have decided to remove Razor and
just go with Spamassassin.  I have not found a good reason to keep Razor
around.  It has not found enough spam for me.

> You can change the timeouts; see the mimedefang-multiplexor(8) man
> page for MIMEDefang's timeouts, and the Sendmail milter docs for
> Sendmail's timeouts
>
(http://www.sendmail.com/partner/resources/development/milter_api/instal
lation.ht
> ml)

For some reason the man pages were not installed for me when I installed
2.28.  I had to manually copy the man pages over to their respective
directories.  Is this a known problem, or did I do something wrong
during the install?

Jeff
-- 
Jeff Grossman (jeff at stikman.com)