[Mimedefang] Still timeout errors - mail rejected

[Rich West]

Also, check the mailing list archives (we need to get them to install 
hitDig or something. :).. a number of folks, myself included, have hit 
similar problems.

The Anomy perl warning messages can safely be ignored.  They are just 
warnings, and nothing more than that.  If anything, they are annoying 
and make the sendmail logs huge over time.

Mail::SpamAssassin 2.x seems to have some rather painful problems.  I 
was experiencing a base64 error and a subsequent timeout when I had 
SpamAssassin 2.01 installed and configured.  The client was simply 
sending a 700k MS word doc which contained pictures and text.  I removed 
the call to spam assassin from the mimedefang config, and the mail 
processing began working as expected.

So, I would suspect your problem to be with SpamAssassin, as was mine.

A couple of people suggested trying out the older SpamAssassin (v 1.5) 
which is no longer available on the spamassassin web site.

I haven't tried it out yet, though, so I cannot attest to how it will 
work for you..

-Rich




David F. Skoll wrote:

>On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Pekka Saari wrote:
>
>Oops, sorry; I should have read further and noticed that you posted
>the filter. :-)
>
>Try taking out the Spam Assassin call.  I think SA may be a little buggy
>and sometimes run for a very long time.
>
>--
>David.
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