EXIM and Spamassassin fails: "spam acl condition: cannot parse spamd output"!

[semseoymas]

Hello:

This is quite a strange error...

Exim does log:

2013-11-29 14:29:26 1VmO8J-0000bI-MQ spam acl condition: cannot parse spamd output
2013-11-29 14:29:26 1VmO8J-0000bI-MQ H=gateway02.websitewelcome.com [x.x.x.x]:59424 I=[y.y.y.y]:25 Warning: "SpamAssassin as avilesyr detected message as NOT spam ()"

At the same time, Spamd does log:

Nov 29 14:29:18 hyperserver spamd[1094]: spamd: result: Y 67 - BAYES_99,DCC_CHECK,HTML_MESSAGE,LOTS_OF_MONEY,NORMAL_HTTP_TO_IP,SPF_PASS scantime=3.3,size=58542,user=ramondiz,uid=725,required_score=5.5,rhost=localhost,raddr=127.0.0.1,rport=58496,mid=<[email protected]>,bayes=1.000000,autolearn=spam,shortcircuit=no
Nov 29 14:29:19 hyperserver spamd[1005]: prefork: child states: II
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1094]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 58536
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1094]: spamd: setuid to avilesyr succeeded
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1005]: prefork: child states: BI
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1005]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid [1094] due to SIGCHLD: exit 1
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1005]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 2323
Nov 29 14:29:26 hyperserver spamd[1005]: prefork: child states: II
Nov 29 14:29:43 hyperserver spamd[1627]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 58604
Nov 29 14:29:43 hyperserver spamd[1627]: spamd: setuid to cpanel succeeded
Nov 29 14:29:43 hyperserver spamd[1627]: spamd: processing message <[email protected]> for cpanel:32001

Have a look at spamd, first accepting the connection; then, the child die and the spamd parent proccess spawn a new one...

Not a question of idle threads... other example:

Nov 29 14:56:02 hyperserver spamd[12524]: prefork: child states: IIIIII
Nov 29 14:56:04 hyperserver spamd[12565]: spamd: connection from localhost [127.0.0.1] at port 34890
Nov 29 14:56:04 hyperserver spamd[12565]: spamd: setuid to cycloes succeeded
Nov 29 14:56:04 hyperserver spamd[12565]: spamd: checking message <D15675FCFC297F49A506053[email protected]> for cycloes:603
Nov 29 14:56:04 hyperserver spamd[12524]: prefork: child states: BIIIII
Nov 29 14:56:05 hyperserver spamd[12524]: spamd: handled cleanup of child pid [12565] due to SIGCHLD: exit 1
Nov 29 14:56:05 hyperserver spamd[12524]: spamd: server successfully spawned child process, pid 14342
Nov 29 14:56:05 hyperserver spamd[12524]: prefork: child states: IIIIII

This is happening not for all emails, but randomly...

I have captured for myself (from the maildir) the email causing child death.... then:

/usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/perl/514/bin/spamassassin -t < emailquefallabosco

And SA does right... just print out the scanning information... plenty... as usual.


What do you think it could happen with SA?

Thanks.

 

[semseoymas]

Helo:

Discovered:

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ResourceLimits
resource_limit_mem 26843545

SA proccesses were dying because of this memory limitation at local.cf

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

I am happy to hear you were able to resolve the issue. Thank you for sharing the solution you found with us.

Thank you.

 

[mlopez]

This happened to me too, I'm trying to solve this increasing memory limit in /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf file:

loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ResourceLimits
# resource_limit_mem 536870912 (default)
resource_limit_mem 1073741824

But, will this file be overwritten by a future cPanel update ?

Regards!

 

[cPRex]

@mlopez - at the top of that file, you'll see this entry:

# This is the right place to customize your installation of SpamAssassin.

so it's fine to make edits there.

Just to be extra sure, I edited the resource_limit_mem value on my personal machine and then ran "/scripts/upcp --force" and the value was not reverted back to the default.