Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-11-12 Thread Luis Croker
Hi this mail ius just to say thanks all the people kindly sent me a mail trying to figure out the low performance in my server. Right now the server is working well and filtering like I wish. The changes I did were decrease the number of amavisd processes to 5, turned off DCC, the

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-11-12 Thread John Hardin
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008, Luis Croker wrote: turned off DCC, the network tests and install the DNS service locallly. Turning off the network tests will obscure any benefit from installing a local caching DNS server. Try turning the network tests on for a while and see whether your performance

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-11-05 Thread Luis Croker
Hi all... I was doing some tests with all the recommendations you sent me... and I can make to work the server correctly... I was filtering spam with no problems and my performances troubles dissapeard... I just configured 5 procs for amavis and postfix content filter and I

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Martinec
Luis, I was doing some tests with all the recommendations you sent me... and I can make to work the server correctly... I was filtering spam with no problems and my performances troubles dissapeard... I just configured 5 procs for amavis and postfix content filter and I turn off

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-11-05 Thread Duane Hill
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Mark Martinec wrote: Luis, I was doing some tests with all the recommendations you sent me... and I can make to work the server correctly... I was filtering spam with no problems and my performances troubles dissapeard... I just configured 5 procs for amavis and

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-30 Thread SM
At 05:51 30-10-2008, Luis Hernán Otegui wrote: Just to check, you know you should run a RBL check in Postfix BEFORE it accepts te message, do you? This reduces dramatically the number of messages your server has to scan. And improves the performance a lot. You should not run RBL checks on

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-29 Thread Luis Croker
How can I tunr off the Network tests (RBLs) ??? Just to probe if it can make the delivery faster. On Wed, 2008-10-29 at 04:05 +, Ned Slider wrote: Gary V wrote: 6 seconds seems somewhat typical. Mostly due to network tests. Some RBLs are no longer and you could turn the non

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-29 Thread Ned Slider
Luis Croker wrote: How can I tunr off the Network tests (RBLs) ??? Just to probe if it can make the delivery faster. In /etc/amavisd.conf, find the following line: $sa_local_tests_only = 0;# only tests which do not require internet access? and change the setting to = 1 then

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Luis Croker
Hi all... I continue with slow delivery in my mail server. Like I told you, the filters are working well, but the mail queue some times is big and slow. I have read http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance and I did some chages to try to get performance. This changes

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread John Hardin
On Tue, 28 Oct 2008, Luis Croker wrote: I continue with slow delivery in my mail server. Like I told you, the filters are working well, but the mail queue some times is big and slow. I have read http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance Have you checked to see whether your

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Luis Croker
I have 4 CPUS and 4 Gigs of RAM. The server have just the mail applications and is doing nothing else the CPUs are 100% available. About the spamd childs... The amavis-new calls the utilities of spamassassin but i think it doesnt need the spamd deamon running... just use it to get

RE: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I continue with slow delivery in my mail server. Like I told you, the filters are working well, but the mail queue some times is big and slow. I have read http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance and I did some chages to try to get

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread McDonald, Dan
On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 09:34 -0600, Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... . smtp-amavis unix - - n - 100 smtp -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200 -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes -o disable_dns_lookups=yes and I have the same number of procs for amavisd: $max_servers

RE: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Luis Croker
Hi... I have done tests with 10 processes, 30, 50, 100 and the results are the same... I have 4 Gb RAM and spamd is not running... Regards. On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:01 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I continue with slow delivery in my mail

RE: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Bowie Bailey
Luis Croker wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 11:01 -0500, Bowie Bailey wrote: Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I continue with slow delivery in my mail server. Like I told you, the filters are working well, but the mail queue some times is big and slow. I have

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.10.08 10:04, Luis Croker wrote: Hi... I have done tests with 10 processes, 30, 50, 100 and the results are the same... I have 4 Gb RAM and spamd is not running... lower it back to 10 or so, unless you receive that much of mail. Luis Croker wrote: Hi all... I

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Luis Croker
Hi guys.. I have read all your mails and I have decreased the number of procs to 10. the performance is better but continues slow. The server is not using swap and I have no spamd running, this is called from amavisd. How many procs is the recommended for this server with 4 Gb

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Luis Croker
I have put the log level to 4 in amavisd.conf and this is one operation... Everything is Ok in times... until SA is called and the delay goes to 6 seconds... actually at the end of the log amavisd displays a timing statistics and SA check spent 97% of the time... Regards. Oct 28

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: Aren't you using redhat? There was some bugreprt about perl in redhat causing slow processing.. I believe that issue was fixed with the update of perl last month.

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
Luis Croker wrote: Hi... I have done tests with 10 processes, 30, 50, 100 and the results are the same... I have 4 Gb RAM and spamd is not running... Regards. You also need to make sure the maxproc column of the feed to amavisd in /etc/postfix/master.cf matches whatever you've

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Gary V
On 10/28/08, Ned Slider [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Luis Croker wrote: Hi... I have done tests with 10 processes, 30, 50, 100 and the results are the same... I have 4 Gb RAM and spamd is not running... Regards. You also need to make sure the maxproc column of the feed to amavisd in

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-28 Thread Ned Slider
Gary V wrote: 6 seconds seems somewhat typical. Mostly due to network tests. Some RBLs are no longer and you could turn the non functional RBL rules off by setting to 0. I'm not sure which ones though. Maybe someone else knows. From my own stats of hits against DNSBLs and URIBLs for the last

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread SM
At 16:56 23-10-2008, Luis Croker wrote: I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new+spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that our susbribers are sending to internet, the PCs have some malware or are botnets. These PCs generates a lot of spam each day.

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Luis Croker a écrit : Hi... I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new+spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that our susbribers are sending to internet, the PCs have some malware or are botnets. These PCs generates a lot of spam each day. The

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread Luis Croker
I have updated the SARE rules... how often should I update them ? Daily ? On Thu, 2008-10-23 at 23:19 -0700, SM wrote: At 16:56 23-10-2008, Luis Croker wrote: I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new+spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread mouss
Luis Croker a écrit : I have updated the SARE rules... how often should I update them ? Daily ? no. they don't change often. (I don't update them anymore, so I don't know when they were last updated...). JM_SOUGHT rules get updated often.

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Luis Croker wrote: I have updated the SARE rules... how often should I update them ? Daily ? SARE development has frozen while Real Life intrudes. The ninjas have said they will announce any updates on the list, when and if they occur, and will announce if regular

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread SM
At 10:12 24-10-2008, Luis Croker wrote: I have updated the SARE rules... how often should I update them ? Daily ? It's been a while since the SARE rules have been updated. Checking for updates daily would only generate useless traffic. It's better to get the updates provided by the

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread Luis Croker
Hi.. thanks all for the answers.. I have enabled the most high debug level and I have figured out some rules that I modified and put the scro directly in local.cf and now Im filtering very well the mails... So, now I have another issue... My performance is not good. Some times I have

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-24 Thread John Hardin
On Fri, 24 Oct 2008, Luis Croker wrote: So, now I have another issue... My performance is not good. Some times I have a lot of petitions and the mails goes to the mail queue and the delivery rate is slow... http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/FasterPerformance -- John Hardin KA7OHZ

Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Luis Croker
Hi... I have a mail server with FreeBSD 7.0, postfix+amavis-new +spamassassin. We are an ISP and I need to filter the spam that our susbribers are sending to internet, the PCs have some malware or are botnets. These PCs generates a lot of spam each day. The server filters a los of

RE: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
maybe if you block messages with no rdns record? if its from infected pc's there shouldnt be a record? From: Luis Croker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/23/2008 19:56 To: users@spamassassin.apache.org Subject: Spamassassin+amavis Hi

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Benny Pedersen
On Fri, October 24, 2008 01:56, Luis Croker wrote: How can I catch more spam than the seerver is filtering ? The server blocks many messages but another spam messages goes to internet cause the score does not reach the parameters to be blocked. go the smtp auth route, when spam comes in

Re: Spamassassin+amavis

2008-10-23 Thread Nelson Serafica
@spamassassin.apache.org Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 8:05:45 AM Subject: RE: Spamassassin+amavis maybe if you block messages with no rdns record? if its from infected pc's there shouldnt be a record? From: Luis Croker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 10/23/2008 19:56

Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread znapper
Hi I am running a linux based virus/spam filtering server which uses spamassassin - amavis-new - postfix (and clamd). - After filtering/tagging for virus and spam, the server then forwards mails to a microsoft exhange system. - There are no local delivery on the filtering computer, it simply

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Micke Andersson
znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? The server is set up to relay all mail adressed to exhange-configured-domain.com and discard anything else. I've tried to add the spamtrap user and tried to send mail to this user, using the regular [EMAIL PROTECTED], only resulting in a error

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Bill Randle
On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:07 +0200, Micke Andersson wrote: znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? The server is set up to relay all mail adressed to exhange-configured-domain.com and discard anything else. I've tried to add the spamtrap user and tried to send mail to this user,

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread znapper
Bill Randle wrote: On Mon, 2006-10-09 at 14:07 +0200, Micke Andersson wrote: znapper wrote: Big question is, how do I do this? [cut] You should NOT forward any mail from Exchange to some other recipient, since Exchange and Outlook will destroy a lot of the header information,

Re: Spamassassin + amavis-new + postfix - how to learn?

2006-10-09 Thread Gary V
I will look into it asap, the scripts will come in handy as our filter needs it desperately. Kind regards Ole-H If you are only catching 10% of spam, fixing Bayes will help, but it is also very important to find out what else is wrong. Your Bayes may have become polluted with low scoring