George Sweetnam wrote:
>You might also want to add some additional blacklists from orbs (don't
do
>the all-in-one). Some like the dynamic shouldn't be used, but the
>exploited
>server rbl is very handy. I added 5 or 6 to my servers and it's helped
>even more.
>The content of my current blacklists control file (I does change):
> -r sbl.spamhaus.org
> -r bl.spamcop.net
> -r relays.ordb.org
> -r block.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r http.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r misc.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r rhsbl.sorbs.net
> -r smtp.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r socks.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r spam.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r web.dnsbl.sorbs.net
> -r zombie.dnsbl.sorbs.net
>Just eliminate the biggest files in your setup - comment out BLACKLIST
>and BLACKLIST_URL from your config. Those two are huge and taking them
>out of my setup returned my system to normal behavior.
Thanks, I will look at adding to my blacklists control file. Can you
tell me what the "-r" command means?
Steve Ingraham
--Original Message--
> Steve Ingraham wrote:
>
> I need help with a problem. Our users are seeing some multiple
> duplicate emails coming from the same sender. This is not occurring
> with every email so there does not seem to be any pattern to which
> incoming emails will be duplicated and which ones won't. They are also
> reporting that duplicate emails are sent when they send to an outside
> email. Has anyone experienced this problem before? What could be
> causing this to occur and what can I do to stop this? I am running
> qmailtoaster and spamassassin as an external email gateway. There has
> been nothing changed with qmail but I did update some rules in SA
> using rules_du_jour yesterday. Would these rules updates cause this
> problem? If so, what would have changed?
>
> Jake Vickers wrote:
>
> If your system is low on resources (ie: RAM), then the spamd process
> can take too long, making Toaster think the mail got lost somewhere,
> so it resends it.
> Might want to check and see how much RAM you're using.
>
> I want to thank everyone who posted a reply on my inquiry. I believe
> Jake Vickers was right about the problem. The RAM on the email server
> was bogged down since yesterday when I updated the various .cf files
> using rules_du_jour. I had included just a handful of rules from RDJ
> but it appears that RDJ utilizes much too much of my server resources
> to use it to update my spamassassin rules. It was slowing down the
> server so much that simple functions were not responding. This appears
> to have affected the delivery of emails. In fact I noticed that my
> original message to these mail lists took several hours to post and
> were duplicated also. I resolved the problem by moving the various
> rules .cf files out of the /etc/mail/spamassassin folder and
> restarting spamassassin.
>
> If anyone has a simple way of updating rules for spamassassin I would
> welcome your input. I still need to update the rules as I have been
> getting a great number of emails coming through to users.
> Specifically, we are getting a lot of the pharmaceutical spam and the
> stock spam.
>
> Again, thanks to everyone for the posts.
>
> Steve Ingraham
>
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