[Modus] Mail Relay Recommendations for ModusGate

[Lapo Nustrini]

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We use two mail gateways in front of our modusgate server (they do all 
RBL checking).
The run Sendmail on FreeBSD.   We usually have about 500,000 messages 
passed through to the gate each 24 hours.
The one problem we regularly see with Moduscan is not that it crashes, 
but rather that it simply slows down and allows the /invirus folder to 
fill up.  To counter this problem, we are using ServersAlive to 
periodically check the number of files in the /invirus folder and 
restart moduscan every time there are more than X files in the 
directory.
This has kept the scanning portion of our modusgate running quite well, 
even while under heavy load.
Because of this automatic check, however, I can't say that moduscan 
doesn't just crash on its own (even though I have not witnessed this).  
If it does, then the /invirus folder fills up and ServersAlive will 
start moduscan, thus fixing the problem.

Hopefully this is helpful to you.

Lapo

On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:38 AM, Jim Peters wrote:

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the modusgate scan service

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Jim,
What exactly is crashing in ModusGate?  Is it a specific service, or ?
Thanks,

Lapo Nustrini

Seanet Corporation

701 Fifth Ave, Suite 6801
Seattle
98104 WA
(206) 343 7828
http://www.seanet.com


On Jan 21, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Jim Peters wrote:

Are there any mail relay recommendations for modusgate in terms of
performance or issues where mail relays that burst thousands of
messages thru them could cause modusgate scanner to crash?
�
Reason i ask is we are experiencing frequent but
intermittent crashes
with modusgate both on 2.1 and since we've upgraded to 3.0 latest
build and wondered if any mail relays traffic could possibly be
causing some of this?
�
Thanks in advance,
�
Jim Peters
Airgas, Inc.
Tel: +1 (610) 230-3085
Fax: +1 (610) 225-7243
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