You're running spamdyke, right?
Kyle Quillen wrote:
> Thanks for the info Erik,
>
> I am working on this now and have already applied the spamassassin stuff.
>
> I did set the concurrency incoming to a lower amount earlier and loads seem
> to be coming down a little but spam filtering just takes too many resources
>
> I am working on the spamd servers now
>
> thanks
>
> q
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erik A. Espinoza [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sun 8/31/2008 4:26 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [qmailtoaster] High Server Load
>
> Hey Kyle,
>
> Last we spoke this issue seems to be caused by too much mail coming in
> at once and causing the spamassassin to run very slow.
>
> There are a few things you could do.
> 1) Edit /var/qmail/supervise/spamd/run. After #!/bin/sh but before
> exec, add in these two lines:
> LANG=C
> export LANG
>
> This should make perl run a hell of a lot faster, as it will skip some
> of the internationalization stuff.
>
> 2) You can lower the amount of concurrencyincoming so as to keep less
> mail from being accepted at once. This should help spamd, and since
> other mail servers will retry it should cause no mail to be lost
>
> 3) You can get a few extra boxes and run spamassasin's spamd on it,
> and reconfigure spamc to use the other destiation hosts. This will
> require rebuilding the simscan package with "--enable-spamc-args"
> enabled for remote scanning.
>
> As far as making sure spam gets moved into the right folder, that's
> not easy to apply across the board. The only real way to do it would
> be to write a script that pulls the folder and ensures that the
> mailfilter is set in everyones home directory. Then just cron this to
> run every so often.
>
> Thanks,
> Erik
>
> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 12:42 PM, Kyle Quillen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hello all,
>>
>> I am once again seeing high server loads which are resulting in dups being
>> sent to end users. I am looking for a little direction here.
>>
>>
>> What I am wanting to do is setup a scanning server that serves as my primary
>> mx and then forward the mail to the toaster server. The only questions are:
>>
>> 1. What does the list feel that I should use for the scanner server
>> 2. How can I setup the toaster server to accept all mail tagged as
>> ***Spam*** and put it into the spam folder?
>>
>> Also how would I just stop scanning and just process mail to help aleviate
>> server load?
>>
>> If anyone else has any other suggestions I am all ears?
>>
>>
>> Much thanks
>> q
>>
>>
>>
--
-Eric 'shubes'
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