Spam.blacklist.rules

[Jim Holland]

Hi

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, xcelent wrote:

> well just replace this file with ur existing spam.blacklist.rules file
> and restart MailScanner and see the results.

The result, sadly, was disaster!  A steadily increasing volume of mail
built up in /var/spool/mqueue.in and I stupidly didn't notice it, because
enough mail still got processed that I didn't realise there was a serious
problem.  I can't see anything in the logs reporting an error, and haven't
yet worked out what went wrong.  Maybe it was simply system overload due
to the size of the file (400 KB), but I didn't see any particular sign of
that at the time.

Once I removed the entries, the mail started to move again.

I would be interested to know if others have had a problem using this
update!

Regards

Jim Holland
System Administrator
MANGO - Zimbabwe's non-profit e-mail service