[Mimedefang] Still timeout errors - mail rejected

[Jeff Heinen]

There have been some mention of not only adjusting timeouts, but also
letting overly large (>500k) messages pass the filters unchecked. The large
amount of text in documents of that size might just take a much longer
amount of time when compared with other emails. (Plus, spam tends to be
<20k, otherwise, it would take the spammer too long to send each message.

And yes, from what I've seen SA needs another patch or two, but they are
getting there. My problem is just keeping the rules updated fast enough.

-----Original Message-----
From: Rich West [mailto:Rich.West at divatv.com]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 8:20 AM
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Still timeout errors - mail rejected


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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