Spamassassin not working correctly

jclawson · Unread post by **jclawson** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 4:57 pm

I am not quite sure of what I did here... its always somthing you know? I wanted to upgrade to the latest version of spamassassin so I installed the qmail scanner / spammassassin package. I also installed squirrelmail.

My emails are not being tagged as spam and the spam header looks like this:
X-Spam-Status: No, hits=? required=?

At first it was working and then it stopped. I don't think I changed anything.

Here is a dump of my spamd processes: (should there be that many?)

qmailq 21836 0.0 1.2 30208 26248 ? Ss Apr26 0:00 /usr/bin/spamd -d -u qmailq -q -x -c -m30
qmailq 6178 0.0 1.3 34048 27548 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6331 0.0 1.3 34048 27548 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6350 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6423 0.0 1.3 34048 27540 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6432 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6445 0.0 1.3 34048 27552 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6485 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:53 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6520 0.0 1.3 34048 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6572 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6578 0.0 1.3 34052 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6587 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6593 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6628 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6644 0.0 1.3 34048 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6652 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6674 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6701 0.0 1.3 34048 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6720 0.0 1.3 34048 27552 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6721 0.0 1.3 34072 27540 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6735 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6739 0.0 1.3 34072 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6763 0.0 1.3 34048 27548 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6790 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6841 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6853 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6908 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6911 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6959 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:01 spamd child
qmailq 6989 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:00 spamd child
qmailq 7091 0.0 1.3 34068 27544 ? S 14:54 0:00 spamd child

I would not be adversed to rolling back to the old version of spam assassin but I am not quite sure of how to procede on that point. I tried once before but I couldn't get it to work.

I am on Fedora Core 2 with Plesk Reloaded

Thanks for your help

Unread post by **scott** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 7:36 am

-m30 means 30 child processes. If you're on a box that doesnt have a lot of L2 cache, or ram then sometimes spamd will get overwhelmed and wont be able to process a message fast enough. If this takes longer than 600 seconds, spamc will failsafe and send the message on through, untested. That is what the ? is reporting.

jclawson · Unread post by **jclawson** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:00 pm

that doesn't make sense... I have 2 gigs of RAM with 441mb currently free as reported by top.

Any other ideas?

jclawson · Unread post by **jclawson** » Thu Apr 28, 2005 6:03 pm

oh... and my email goes through faster than 10 minutes so that can't be the case. I can send email from 1 domain on the machine to another on the machine in a few seconds

Unread post by **scott** » Fri Apr 29, 2005 11:00 am

free memory doesnt really equate in there. Cached memory you'd also count as free memory (its better really, since it has previously run apps cached).

At any rate, I'd check with the spamassassin folks about it. Perhaps you've got some other deeper issues on your system.