Tim, I see what you mean. The server is into swap space but is
responsive and working, so nothing seems urgent. Probably what you want
to do is research current best practices for spam control.
Cheers,
Rod
On 8/1/19 5:49 pm, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
Rod,
Oh lord. It appears that the beginning-of-month "reminder that you're
on a listserv" emails all fell within that time period. Those emails
timed out, which generated an email to tell us that it's timed out,
which didn't get sent because *all* mail was timing out, all due to
clamav apparently silently failing.
Once clamav was brought back, it's started grinding through that
queue... yikes. It's currently chewing up a huge block of memory.
I am now entirely rethinking clamav's existence on the server. :/
Tim
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:14 PM Rod Roark <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Tim, I just sent you a sample.
I'm not a procmail guru... perhaps someone else here has ideas.
Regards,
Rod
On 8/1/19 4:55 pm, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
Hi Rod,
Primarily me now, I think.
What happened was that I discovered earlier today that ClamAV had
apparently been misbehaving and had tanked mail/listserv service
entirely, and for a few days, it turned out. I also actually ran an
apt update/upgrade and rebooted the server myself several hours ago,
and indeed it brought the mail server roaring back to life... which is
probably why you've been seeing all those messages suddenly, as it
tries to process through the backlog. Sorry about the blast of
mailer-daemon notices. How/where are you receiving them?
I'm still getting chunks of mail blasting in, myself, both daemon
notices and junk. I installed clamAV (and spamassassin, too) a while
ago when I was trying to clean up the mail server a bit. We have a
pretty severe incoming spam problem, and particularly the way much of
it is getting processed/procmailed out to me and other officers using
gmail and similar services has actually been kind of a serious
problem--and one that is going to need revisiting eventually. I'm up
for suggestions on the next move.
Tim
On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:29 PM Rod Roark <[email protected]> wrote:
Checking if this still works.
To LUGOD admin(s): I started getting a ton of "Undelivered Mail Returned
to Sender" emails from [email protected]. It looked like ClamAV
being outdated might have been an issue so I did an upgrade and
rebooted. Not sure if that mattered though.
Who's the LUGOD admin these days?
Rod
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