Spamassassin works VERY well except when Razor fails. Today my servers load rose to 30+. This of course brings my qmail to a crawl. This has happened 3 times in the last year or so. The best way to avoid this in the future is to add the following to local.cf:
score RAZOR_CHECK 0 score RAZOR2_CHECK 0 This disables razor completly. Tim Treaster ByteWare Systems ---- On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Bernd Schmelter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Lindsey Simon wrote: > > I can attest to the same situation on two different servers, both > > debian woody, happening since two days ago. The load avg on one was @ > > 60. > > > > What's bizarre is that spamassassin was doing fine for a few months > > before this. > > > > Very DoS like. Spambombs? exploits? Anybody gotta guess? > > [...] > > me too ;-( > > SuSE 8.1 Distribution, Postfix, spamcheck.py, spamassassin v2.43 > > Same Problems with amavisd-new, calling spamassassin via procmail, > spamc/spamd. > > > Some spamd-processes hang. I've found some tcp-sync with netstat and > one open udp-Port, that listened world-wide. > > Yesterday i added "dns_available no" in > /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf, but today it hangs again. > > Now I call spamd with the "-L" option. > > man spamd: > > --- > | -L, --local > | Perform only local tests on all mail. In other > | words, > | skip DNS and other network tests. > | Works the same as the "-L" flag to spamassassin > --- > > [...] > > hth > Benn ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
