Message Backups and Spam Checks

[Kevin Miller]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Steve Evans [mailto:sevans at FOUNDATION.SDSU.EDU]
>Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 1:52 PM
>To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>Subject: Message Backups and Spam Checks
>
>
>I had a lot of problems with backed up mail today.  CPU usage was low,
>and there was plenty of free memory.  When I changed
>MailScanner.conf to
>Spam Checks = no it quickly processed all the queued mail.  So I assume
>that one of the net checks (RBL, Razor, or DCC) was causing problems.
>My question is how can I tell when one of the net checks is causing
>problems and how can I tell which one?


I see a lot of timeouts for spamcop today - maybe the DOS attack boys are at
it again.

I noticed mine in /var/log/warn (SuSE)...

...Kevin
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