High Load

[Martin Hepworth]

Denis

do a lint check..

make sure /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf is readable by the
MailScanner user..

restart MailScanner

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Martin Hepworth
Snr Systems Administrator
Solid State Logic
Tel: +44 (0)1865 842300


Denis Beauchemin wrote:
> Raymond Dijkxhoorn wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>>
>>
>>
>>> excellent pointer!  I *did* have bigevil.cf loaded.  After rm'ing it and
>>> reloading MS, my load is down below 1.00 again.  I'll be keeping an
>>> eye on
>>> it today.  Thanks a LOT!  I woke up to an unresponsive server this
>>> morning
>>> :/
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>> Have you got the bigevil.cf loaded in SA? I found this a major hog..
>>>>
>>
>>
>> BigEvil is available as SURBL, this doesnt consume much and is just
>> another DNS lookup.... Might be the solution for you to keep using it.
>>
>>
>>
> I've just looked into it and was wondering if the following installation
> would be OK:
> 1- download and install Mail-SpamAssassin-SpamCopURI-0.14
> 2- copy rules/spamcop_uri.cf /etc/mail/spamassassin/
> 3- edit /etc/mail/spamassassin/spamcop_uri.cf to comment out
> SPAMCOP_URI_RBL (if I don't want to use SpamCop) and to add BE_URI_RBL
> and WS_URI_RBL
> 4- remove /etc/mail/spamassassin/bigevil.cf
>
> Anything else to do?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Denis
>

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