Alan wrote:

>> I think you meant Spamassassin (3.0.3-2sarge). It certainly looks
>> like SA is the problem. Are you using SQL for Bayes and AWL? This
>> helps with file locking issues (and is faster).

> No Bayes or AWL setup yet.  We're in a multi-user environment and from
> what I understand AWL and Bayes aren't that effective unless they are on
> a per-user basis.  Of course, I'm honestly pretty new to multi-user
> SA/Amavis, so this could be wrong.

Bayes and AWL is turned on by default so I assume you have
deliberately turned it off.

>> There was a bug report about problems with message/partial:
>> http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5041
>> It appears this has not been resolved. If you have samples of the mail
>> that took a long time to scan it would be interesting to see if they
>> they contained a message/partial component.
>> 
>> If you are able to obtain one of the offending messages, it would be a
>> good idea to see what happens when you manually feed it to
>> spamassassin in debug mode.

> When I have another spike I'll capture a message somehow and see what
> happens.  Would a "postcat <path to message in spool> > message.txt"
> give me an accurate dump of the entire message?

I think so. I was hoping you would have a message (email.txt) in one
on the amavis temp directories. If one of the directories is old it
might have some preserved evidence.

>> Is there any interesting warnings from amavis? Assuming you use $DO_SYSLOG = 
>> 1;
>> egrep -i "(trouble|can't|timed|error|preserving|failed|abort)" 
>> /var/log/mail.log | grep amavis

> Nada :(

Try it on mail.log.0 and zegrep the .gz mail files too.

> Thanks for the suggestions Gary, I'll report back if I find anything in
> the messages if/when we spike again.

Not that this is related to your problem (but who knows at this
point?): If you are interested, it is possible to install amavisd-new
version 2.4.4 from source (without destroying planet earth) on a Debian
Sarge system:

http://www200.pair.com/mecham/spam/upgrade244.html

Gary V


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