[Mimedefang] Code fragment works only sometimes

[Mitch at 0Bits.COM]

Hi,

> These seems to me pretty high, pretty conservative timeouts: can they be too short?
> Ok, I use spamassassin, but only for messages smaller than 100kB, which shouldn't take
> so long on a 400MHz Pentium II
> Am I wrong?

It'd be hard to decide without knowing the load on the system, your
link latency, DNS lookup speed, etc... too many factor can affect this
to make a wild judjement.

> Can I see from any log whether a timeout was exceeded?

Yup, this is where you should start looking. Assuming your syslogd is
setup correctly you should see in one of your log files messages like

Jul  9 11:33:45 core mimedefang[8743]: Error from multiplexor: ERR Filter timed out - check filter rules or system load
Jul  9 11:33:45 core sm-mta[8741]: h69AVimm008741: Milter: data, reject=451 4.7.1 Please try again later
Jul  9 11:33:45 core sm-mta[8741]: h69AVimm008741: to=<mitch at 0bits.com>, delay=00:02:00, pri=140423, stat=Please try again later

M

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: [Mimedefang] Code fragment works only sometimes
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:19:28 EST
From: Andrea Venturoli <ml.ventu at flashnet.it>
Reply-To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com
To: mimedefang at lists.roaringpenguin.com

** Reply to note from Mitch at 0Bits.COM Sun, 13 Jul 2003 19:28:37 +0100
(BST)


> Have you got the F=T set in your milter rules in the .mc file ?
> If not, then this means in the even of a MD filter transient timeout
> the message will be delivered (so that you don't lose email).
>
> See
>
> 	http://www.rudolphtire.com/mimedefang-howto/
>
> M

Oh yes, thanks, this might be the reason and I hadn't thought about this.
Acutally I don't have F=T, and this id what I'd like.

I have:

T=C:15m;S:4m;R:4m;E:10m

These seems to me pretty high, pretty conservative timeouts: can they be too short?
Ok, I use spamassassin, but only for messages smaller than 100kB, which shouldn't take so long on a 400MHz Pentium II.
Am I wrong?

Can I see from any log whether a timeout was exceeded?

 bye & Thanks
        av.