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

Hello: This is quite a strange error... Exim does log: [QUOTE]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: [QUOTE]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=,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 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: [QUOTE]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 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: [QUOTE]/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

December 02, 2013 17:22

Helo: Discovered: [QUOTE]loadplugin Mail::SpamAssassin::Plugin::ResourceLimits resource_limit_mem 26843545
SA proccesses were dying because of this memory limitation at local.cf

cPanelMichael

December 05, 2013 12:45

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

June 17, 2021 21:26

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 Jurassic Moderator

June 18, 2021 13:22

@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.

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

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