my mail server is drowning

[Julian Field]

At 16:03 07/05/2003, you wrote:
>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???

Correct. But make sure you *don't* have
Always Include SpamAssassin Report = yes
set, otherwise it will spamassassinate everything just to produce the
report you asked for.

>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.

4 * 36MB = 144MB.
So where is the rest of your 2048 MB going? Not on MailScanner, according
to your figure.

>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/
> > CAPE WRATH TO RATTRAY HEAD INCLUDING ORKNEY: SOUTHWEST 5 OR 6, BECOMING
> > CYCLONIC 7 OR GALE 8. SHOWERS, THEN RAIN FOR A TIME. MODERATE OR GOOD.
> > MODERATE OR ROUGH.
> >

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