MailScanner -> Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth

[David Hooton]

Have you perhaps considered that the last month's mail traffic has increased
fairly significantly?  MyDoom on it's own was more than half of our traffic
for a day or so.

 

Regards,

 

David Hooton

Senior Partner

Platform Hosting

1300 85 HOST

www.platformhosting.com

 

-----Original Message-----
From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of Yannick Cayer
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2004 7:03 AM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: MailScanner -> Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth

 

Greetings,

 

 

 

I have the following configuration:

 

 

mailscanner-4.25-14

with spamassassin 2.61

sendmail 8.11.6-27

 

on an IBM x235 

 

2 2.4GHZ Processors

1.25 GHZ of RAM

Hot swapable raid 5 config.

 

 

We have about a 100 small sites configured for mail mostly and some, web.

 

This is running on RedHat Linux 7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp

 

We have been running MailScanner on that machine for almost 2 years now
without any problems.

 

 

Since we have activated the anti-spam features using SpamAssassin,  and
standard Spam-Checking throught the ORBS lists, our bandwidth usage has more
than doubled.

 

Before activating that feature, we were using 80-100GB of bandwidth per
month. Now we're up to 224GB for last month.

 

 

Has anyone ever heard of SpamAssassin doing this?

 

 

Thank you in advance for your help.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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