See my post on some timeouts for sendmail. http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/pipermail/mimedefang/2004-February/020462.html
Turn up loggin in sendmail to determine problem in sendmail/mimedefang. define(`confLOG_LEVEL',`26')dnl Turn on reject unknown recipients like such: define(`confBAD_RCPT_THROTTLE',`2')dnl limit spammers from trolling for users on the system. Verify you bayes database upgraded correctly. Do a rebuild on your bayes database if you have one. sa-learn -D --rebuild Wayne Hahn said: > Hello all, > > I upgraded my relay mail server from mimedefang 2.34 to 2.39. I also > upgraded spamassassin from 2.50 to 2.63. Now my server is swamped it seems > like I am having connections just hang onto my server. I use to have 40 to > 75 sendmail connections open at one time now I have 125 to 150 > connections. > I am running FreeBSD 4.6 and sendmail 8.12.5. Has anyone else notice a > greater load when upgrading to 2.63. How do shorten timeout on sendmail > and > what would be a safe value ? Also can I drop the sendmail connection after > certain number of unknown accounts from filter_recipient ? Any advice > would be greatly appreciated I just don't known where to start. > > Wayne Hahn > > _______________________________________________ > Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca > MIMEDefang mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang > -- Luke Computer Science System Administrator Security Administrator,College of Engineering Montana State University-Bozeman,Montana _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang

