Re: Only running network tests when necessary - feature request
On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 09:28:27PM +0100, Justin Mason wrote: btw, I think this is already possible using the shortcircuit plugin. Just use rule priorities to run the non-net rules first, and shortcircuit if they are sufficient. Currently DNS queries are sent no matter what, but it's fixable.. https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5930
Re: Full circle DNS test?
dar...@chaosreigns.com wrote: I see there's a RDNS_NONE rule for when the sending IP address has no DNS PTR (reverse DNS) record. But no rule for when that PTR record doesn't have a matching A (forward DNS) record that matches the sending IP? Is this something that would be accepted into spamassassin if I created a module? Or a feature that would be added if I didn't do it? There are legit mail servers with bad DNS. Not the big ISPs or hosting companies, but small businesses and nonprofits sometimes get this wrong, and in a few countries nonmatching records seem to be routine. We've considered blocking for it, but we'd end up doing a lot of whitelisting and interfering with mail that our users want. It's worth scoring for, and RDNS_NONE already matches this case. Joseph Brennan Lead Email Systems Engineer Columbia University Information Technology
Re: SA 3.3.1 and NetAddr::IP 4.034
On 10/29/10 9:18 AM, Michael Scheidell wrote: On 10/29/10 12:11 PM, Mark Martinec wrote: Sure, go ahead, can't hurt. The patch is now in the SA trunk. Is it worth opening a ticket and putting it into the 3.3 branch too? Mark looks like Freebsd ports has an older version, so it should be ok. pkg_info | grep NetAddr p5-NetAddr-IP-4.02.8 Perl module for working with IP addresses and blocks thereo You might be able to get better results with: Net-Patricia-1.18 which I released earlier this week.
spamassassin - more children / faster scanning
I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 running on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. This works out to be approximately 8,000 emails per day. The spamassassin just can't keep up and it is backing the Queue upto 2500 messages. I have made an adjustment so that the one user can have multiple spamd children running for it, but it doesn't seem to take on more that 2 spamd children. I have also recorded that scanning a single message appears to take approximately 15 seconds. I have adjusted the timeout to 5 seconds, but it still appears to be taking 12 - 20 second per message. This works out to 4 per minute, or 240 per hour. So, of course, it can't keep up if it has 450 per hour coming at it. The system is a basic Linode running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with 512M of memory. I would like to adjust appropriately Number of Max Children Number of Spare Children Number of spamd services per account (upto max children if possible) TimeOut on Scanning of the eMail Suggestions will be appreciated. Thank You Russ
