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 > > > -- The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2UW, UK. -- ## List details at http://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://wiki.exim.org/
