Too many MailScanners Spawned

[Julian Field]

At 15:03 26/10/2002, you wrote:
>* Julian Field (mailscanner at ECS.SOTON.AC.UK) wrote:
> > > server, having 5 MailScanners running means I could have 5 spamd's
> running.
> >
> > Rubbish :-) MailScanner doesn't use spamd at all, never has done and never
> > will do.
>
>But procmail pipes them thru spamc, so I figured after mailscanner was
>done scanning the emails it sends it to procmail.  And since spamassassin
>takes longer to scan it gets overloaded (at least on my machine it falls
>in the overloaded catagory).

I hope you aren't using SpamAssassin in both MailScanner and procmail. When
MailScanner has finished scanning the messages, it leaves them for sendmail
to deliver. MailScanner doesn't get involved in the delivery process at
all. It doesn't call procmail or anything like that.

Calling SpamAssassin from MailScanner will be faster (and more robust) than
calling it from procmail.
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Julian Field                Teaching Systems Manager
jkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk         Dept. of Electronics & Computer Science
Tel. 023 8059 2817          University of Southampton
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