MailScanner Cause server load high

[Raymond Dijkxhoorn]

Hi!

> time, mailscanner has to spend time on each email.
> After I shutdown his "catch all" function, the loading went down right away
> from 90 to 0.9 on this P4 3.0 box.
>
> What my question is, I found this problem by "guessing", and I hope one of
> you guys can tell me if I need to find out those emails coming in right this
> moment is goes to where, what should I do ?  (I am using a whitebox Linux
> with Cpanel )

What about looking at your logfiles, if you would have descent log
analyzers running you would have seen (more or less) right away... This
sounds like a dictionary attack, and unortunately thats pretty 'normal'
these days.

This is however not really a MailScanner issue.

Bye,
Raymond.

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