Autowhitelist issue question
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Category: Spam Filter ISP
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Printed Date: 05 February 2025 at 12:55pm
Topic: Autowhitelist issue question
Posted By: WebGuyz
Subject: Autowhitelist issue question
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 6:23pm
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Was wondering if anyone who is using SFE and has a couple hundred domains and a lot of autowhitelistdelivery entries (we have about half a million) was experiencing issues where customers say that they keep seeing emails trapped by SF t in quarantine hat the users were sure were already whitelisted and that they have repeatedly whitelisted a sender but still have stuff show up in quarantine. I was ignoring these complaints myself until recently and have put a test in place to verify if entries that are being removed from quarantine already had an entry in autowhitelistdelivery table or not. 1 customer complaint I ignore, but more then 5 I start getting concerned.
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Posted By: WebGuyz
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 8:31pm
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Think I know whats happening. Have 2 SFE's and one is getting the updates (SFE2) and the other is not (SFE1). Here is what my setting is for the parameter that I believe controls this
SecondsToHoldEntriesIntblReloadTableInfo=600
Both SFE's are set to this, but one is not doing any updates and the other one is. Anyone else with multiple SFE's having this problem?
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Posted By: WebGuyz
Date Posted: 20 May 2009 at 11:50pm
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A reboot of SFE1 seems to have cleared it up and both are working again. Whats wierd is that SFE1 was doing it job of stopping spam, but the part that checked the reload table was no occuring and had not all day until I rebooted.
Any idea what could cause such a thing?
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Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 9:03am
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Could you zip us SpamFIlter's logfile on your SFE1 for yesterday, so we can try to see why those changes were not being reloaded? If the zip is over 5MB in size, I'll send you a PM with our FTP site login credentials. ------------- Roberto Franceschetti http://www.logsat.com" rel="nofollow - LogSat Software http://www.logsat.com/sfi-spam-filter.asp" rel="nofollow - Spam Filter ISP |
Posted By: WebGuyz
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 9:16am
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After restarting the service, its working ok now. I am putting some logging in place to monitor so when someone retrieves an item from quarantine I can verify a reload event occurs.
Question: When someone retrieves something from quarantine it adds that entry to the WL_AutoWhiteListForceDelivery.txt file for that domain. Does SFE also update the sql table tblwl_autowhitelistforcedelivery with that entry as well?
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Posted By: WebGuyz
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 9:27am
Disregard that last question. 
Reading the logfile shows that it does. ------------- http://www.webguyz.net |
Posted By: LogSat
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 9:56am
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As an FYI, releasing an item from the quarantine will cause SpamFilter to add it to the "tblwl_autowhitelistforcedelivery". When this happens, database triggers will add an entry to the "tblReloadTableInfo". When any of your SFE see new entries in this "tblReloadTableInfo" (this table is checked every 5 seconds), then SFE will know that the data in the other tables (tblwl_autowhitelistforcedelivery in this case) has changed, and will force an export of the affected table to the relative text file. SpamFilter will then reload the contents of the text file reloading the updated settings.
We added the extra complexity of duplicating the database settings to text files as we ultimately wanted to make SFE use text files for holding the actual configuration files, as we do not want SpamFilter to have any issues whatsoever in case the database server is unavailable. ------------- Roberto Franceschetti http://www.logsat.com" rel="nofollow - LogSat Software http://www.logsat.com/sfi-spam-filter.asp" rel="nofollow - Spam Filter ISP |
Posted By: WebGuyz
Date Posted: 21 May 2009 at 10:39am
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After staring at the logfiles for a few hours I can see all the detail of the reload process going on in the logfiles. What puzzles me what can stop that process but still keep fighting spam and functioning. Yesterdays SFE1 log showed several files being removed from quarantine, but not one tblReloadTableInfo event in the log, no db exports, no reload, but it was working fine otherwise, stopping spam, but no table updates. It didn't even reload the autowhitelistdelivery info after it added it. I finally rebooted the server after midnight last night and everything was working again.
Will send you yesterdays log via ftp and maybe you can explain why it didn't reload the table info into memory or export the db data.
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