my mail server is drowning

[Jeff A. Earickson]

Hi,
   My spam.whitelist.rules look like:

# This is where you can build a Spam WhiteList
# Addresses matching in here, with the value
# "yes" will never be marked as spam.
From:   137.146.        yes
FromTo: default         no
To:             spam@*  yes
To:             abuse at colby.edu yes
To:             postmaster at colby.edu    yes
To:             career-services yes
FromTo: owner-victoria at LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU     yes
FromTo: dglusker at pivot.net      yes
FromTo: lists.worldbank.org     yes
FromTo: alum.colby.edu  yes

where the IP numbers for my domain are 137.146.x.x.  As I understand it,
this whitelists everything outbound from 137.146.x.x, but not inbound.
So spamassassin does its thing on everything inbound except the few
additions further down the list.  Right???

BTW, I turned off auto-whitelist (per Julian's suggestion) and things
are holding together a little better today.  MailScanner still has a
big memory footprint (36 M).  I reduced the number of children from 6
to 4, still a lot of memory page activity.

--- Jeff Earickson

On Wed, 7 May 2003, Tony Finch wrote:

> Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 15:36:10 +0100
> From: Tony Finch <dot at DOTAT.AT>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: my mail server is drowning
>
> "Jeff A. Earickson" <jaearick at COLBY.EDU> wrote:
> >
> >Any suggestions for tuning?
>
> Are you spamassassinating everything? You only really need to scan
> incoming messages.
>
> Tony.
> --
> f.a.n.finch  <dot at dotat.at>  http://dotat.at/
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