Hi John*
I have to ask, is your mail really so time-critical that you're not
willing to wait two minutes for spamd do to its job?
*
No reason really, initially it was set to the default (300secs) which I
thought was what was causing the errors in the logs.
I've set it to 60secs just as a test to
Hi John*
I take it the [?] means you didn't understand what I was trying to
explain?
I'd be happy to try again, if you wish to understand what niceness
means.*
Sorry didn't realise, it was meant to be a smiley symbol ;-) but was
replaced by a question mark instead.
In essence, from what you're
On Sun, 4 Apr 2010, Keith De Souza wrote:
Hi John*
I take it the [?] means you didn't understand what I was trying to
explain? I'd be happy to try again, if you wish to understand what
niceness means.*
Sorry didn't realise, it was meant to be a smiley symbol ;-) but was
replaced by a
*It allows you to adjust the relative priority of spam processing. If SA
is not invoked during SMTP (i.e. not during the interactive part of mail
exchange, where the computer on the other end has to wait for it to finish
processing before it can go on to the next message it wants to send), then
Hi Guys,
Firstly, many thanks for all your replies.
I've now made some changes to my spamd conf file (/etc/conf.d/spamd) based
on the replies given.
This is what it looks like now:
==
SPAMD_OPTS=-m 6 -H -u mail -D --timeout-child=60
# spamd stores its pid in this file. If you use the
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010, Keith De Souza wrote:
I've now made some changes to my spamd conf file (/etc/conf.d/spamd) based
on the replies given.
This is what it looks like now:
==
SPAMD_OPTS=-m 6 -H -u mail -D --timeout-child=60
You don't need -D (debugging output) unless you're actively
Hi Guys,
My current sysadmin has now left the company and I'm new to SA and Exim.
Needless to say I have been assigned the task to
look after the server . I'm hoping I've come to the right place for my
questions to be answered.
The system I have is running on:
Gentoo Base System release 1.12.10
Hi
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Keith De Souza
kbdeso...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Guys,
[snip]
I've read somewhere that the default setting for SA to scan a message is
500k.
Can I reduce this, so that SA scans messages 100k and below?
Have you tried google first ?
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 13:24 +0100, Keith De Souza wrote:
My current sysadmin has now left the company and I'm new to SA and
Exim. [...]
I've read somewhere that the default setting for SA to scan a message
is 500k.
That's actually the default for spamc. Messages exceeding the threshold
just
Hi,
Remember to respond to the mailing list ... so other users can follow
this also ...
On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Keith De Souza
kbdeso...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
But are there are reason for dropping it?
I'm having a few errors in my Exim logs from legitamate senders not coming
Hi
* You need to change whatever glue you are using to pass messages to SA,
and skip the scanning for messages larger than your desired threshold.
*Sorry as I'm new to SA can you elaborated what you mean by glue?
*
That said, IMHO 100k is rather low. Why do you want that particular
threshold?*
Hi
Oops only realized after I had sent you the message - but will do.
* Are you running sa-update ?*
I might not be, how can I check?
* Are there lots of mails in the queue?
*No mails in the queue. I should also say that, mail is coming in fine
and we are receving it but certain legitamate
From: Keith De Souza kbdeso...@googlemail.com
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:10:50 +0100
Hi
* You need to change whatever glue you are using to pass messages to SA,
and skip the scanning for messages larger than your desired threshold.
*Sorry as I'm new to SA can you
Keith De Souza wrote:
I'm trying to understand why is it taking 300.0 seconds to scan a
message only 24Kb in size??
I'm begeining to think that because SA is taking so long to scan the
message, it is timing out
and hence Exim returning a temporarily reject after DATA.
My thoughs so far is
On Wed, 31 Mar 2010, Keith De Souza wrote:
Sorry as I'm new to SA can you elaborated what you mean by glue?
Geek terminology for the program, script or other mechanism that
'connects' your MTA and your SA. Ie. The calling MTA or its script must do
the size check, then decide *whether* to
On Wed, 2010-03-31 at 15:06 +0200, Mikael Syska wrote:
I'm trying to understand why is it taking 300.0 seconds to scan a message
only 24Kb in size??
Use the sysstat tool-set to find out what's going on in your system and
fix that.
I agree with those who say that -m 25 is too large a value.
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