MailScanner -> Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth

[Yannick Cayer]

Still, it doesn't justify for 124GB extra in a month!


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From: MailScanner mailing list [mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
Of David Hooton
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:55 PM
To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
Subject: Re: MailScanner -> Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth



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



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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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