On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 04:17:05PM +0300, Joseph Okech wrote: > I had these issues before with 3 similar servers in an ISP setup where I had > to continually 'baby-sit' spamd (maybe was a bad setup, didnt do it myself.) > I changed everything to use exim+amavisd setup where I accept mail first > before scanning (exceptions to rbl-listed IPs) and the servers now barely use > more than 10% CPU and always less than 5% I/O wait.
Thanks Joseph, Where do you do the scanning in exim if you have accepted the mail first? (am currently using default acl_check_data) does this also mean all spam mail goes into a honeypot rather than completely rejecting obvious spam? >From my experience, scanning at SMTP-time thus has a load on CPU, other people > may differ on the same. > > rgds, > Joseph Thanks, Mark -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
