It _might_ be that you installed razor (or razor2) (spamassassin uses razor if it is installed, by default). If your firewall DROPs packets you send to razor (TCP dest port 7 and 2702 for razor1, I do not know for razor2) (or their replies) this could be the problem : very long razor timeouts. Many people have some mailer problems when razor is down, due to long timeouts.
To be sure you don't use razor, try to add score RAZOR_CHECK 0 score RAZOR2_CHECK 0 in your /etc/spamassassin/local.cf Anyway, if razor is not installed, adding these lines will do no harm. Hope this helps. Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: Sandip P Deshmukh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday 16 December 2002 07:59 > To: Debian User > Subject: urgent - system slow after spamassassin > > > hello all > > after installing spamassassin, my system has become terribly slow! i > thought that it must be becasue spamd is trying to scan all > messages. so > i modified ~/.spamassassin/user-prefs. here is how it looks: > > whitelist_from debian* > whitelist_from mutt* > whitelist_from vim* > > now i realize that this has hardly made any difference. for instance, > messages from [EMAIL PROTECTED] appear to be > coming from the > sender. > > what is more, off and on, a message props up saying > > kmod - runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped > > what is that? > > when my system was crawling, i tried top and it showed several exim > processes - some of them defunct! > > how do i restore sanity with spamassassin on? for writing > this e-mail, i > have turned it off > > -- > regards, > > sandip p deshmukh > ------***-------- > > I can't drive 55. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
