Nice to know that others are getting it as well.  No we are not getting
it for all the messages - it just on odd occasions - every 10 - 15 mins.
We can access DNS servers very quickly - on a 1GB network like the MTA
machines running SpamAssassin.  Does SA caches the site name/address?

 

Sujit

On 2009-03-04 16:15, Graeme Fowler wrote: 
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 15:36 +0000, Sujit Acharyya-Choudhury wrote: 
> > Just to clarify the exim spamd config is as follows in the data
section: 
> 
> Looks sane enough. 
> 
> However, this is a SpamAssassin problem, not Exim. Exim is reporting
to 
> you that a specific SA connection timed out - which implies that the
SA 
> child handling the connection wedged in some way. 
> 
> Is SA setup to do a lot of DNS lookups or other online tests? Can you
be 
> absolutely sure that these aren't causing some scans to go slowly -
eg. 
> if a TCP session has to be opened to some external app or service, is 
> that working? 
> 
> You might want to turn up the debug level in SA, or do some other type

> of connection tracking so you know exactly which message the child was

> processing when it timed out. 
> 
> We also see this, but I usually ignore it unless it's for every single

> message... 
> 
> Graeme 
> 
> 
> 



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