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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
