RE: Spamassassin timing out

[Palomäki Kai <Kai.Palomaki@xxxxxx>]

> I'm not sure this is the place to ask, but I'm having problems with 
> Spamassassin timing out. I've already upgraded to
> Mail::SpamAssassin 3.0.1 in case it was fixed but I'm still having 
> problems. Is this a configuration error or a SpamAssassin
> problem?
> 
> smtp-amavisd is defined as:
> smtp-amavis     unix    -       -       n       -       2       smtp
>         -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> 
> ..  I'm assuming this says to wait for 20 mins but it's nowhere near 
> that as my logs show.
> 
> Oct 29 09:46:38 linux amavis[26967]: (26967-01) ESMTP::10024 
> /tmp/amavis-20041029T094637-26967: <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ->
>  <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Received: SIZE=10467 from linux.pricetrak.com 
> ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (linux.pricetrak.com [127.0
> .0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26967-01 for 
> <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 09:46:38 +0100 (BST)
> 
> Oct 29 09:46:38 linux amavis[26967]: (26967-01) Checking: 
> <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -> <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Oct 29 09:47:03 linux amavis[26967]: (26967-01) SA TIMED OUT, 
> backtrace: 
> at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin
> /BayesStore.pm line 333\n\teval {...} called at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore.pm line 
> 333\n\tM
> ail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::expire_old_tokens_trapped('Mail
> ::SpamAssassin::BayesStore=HASH(0x92a30f0)','undef') 
> called at /
> usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore.pm line 
> 271\n\teval {...} called at /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.
> 8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/BayesStore.pm line 
> 268\n\tMail::SpamAssassin::BayesStore::expire_old_tokens('Mail
> ::SpamAssassin::BayesSt
> ore=HASH(0x92a30f0)','undef') called at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Bayes.pm line 
> 735\n\tMail::SpamAssa
> ssin::Bayes::sync('Mail::SpamAssassin::Bayes=HASH(0x8b414e4)')
>  called at 
> /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.0/Mail/SpamAssassin/Ba
> yes.pm line 
> 972\n\tMail::SpamAssassin::Bayes::opportunistic_expire('Mail::S...

Configuration error. SpamAssassin bayes auto expire timeout.
perldoc Mail::SpamAssassin::Conf and look for bayes_auto_expire
This should be set to 0 at spamassassin user_prefs

Then use "sa-learn --force-expire --sync" manually to expire bayes
database (once a week for example).