I'm not even using the milter (though I'd like to.) and I'm running on Postfix blocking 30,000+ messages per day (most through spamhaus), but other's through amavis. Amavis is painfully slow, but I've found that it runs much better on multi-core processors (go figure). Its also a memory hog, but I think part of that is Perl's interpereter.
In post queue mode, you set the quarantiine/discard number to something unbelievably high so that mail doesn't get rejected and then deliver it, but mark the header and let the end user decide what they want to do. --Curtis Maurand www.xyonet.com Henrik K wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 12:15:22PM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > >>> Hello, >>> >>> before i was using amavis in post-queue mode. >>> But due to german law, i must use amavis in pre-queue mode. >>> How can i accelerate amavis, to use it in pre-queue mode? >>> \ >>> >> Just curious: >> >> What is english translation of german law, something like >> "You must use amabisd-new in pre-queue mode under penalty of law"? >> >> Since amavisd-new in pre-queue mode is SLOW.... SLOW ... SLOW >> > > What's all the fuss about SLOW SLOW BOOM BOOM it's gonna explode? > > It's slow if you use smtpd_proxy_filter and gazillion amavisd processes. > Probably something like that is the case here.. > > Using amavisd-milter is much better option, you can control concurrent > process amount and socket queue. No limiting then needed for postfix > processes, you can do do cheap rejects before amavisd (unknown users, > helo/rbl etc). > > Of course you do have to know something about your average traffic and > hardware limits. But nothing wrong about running pre-queue scanning. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > AMaViS-user mailing list > AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user > AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 > AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ AMaViS-user mailing list AMaViS-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amavis-user AMaViS-FAQ:http://www.amavis.org/amavis-faq.php3 AMaViS-HowTos:http://www.amavis.org/howto/
