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.

> You don't say what you are running. That kind of load is _not_ normal
> regardless of the amount of spam you may have to process it should never go
> that high.

If hes gotten hit by a dictionary attack, by a zilion IP's then its
normal, we have seen situations like that more then once... The question
is however how many mails, in what timespan, and how many unique sending
IPs.

Bye,
Raymond.

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