Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly

[Jeff A. Earickson]

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Hi,
    I use the defaults of

dns_available yes
rbl_timeout 20

I would suggest moving some of the RBL's (like SpamHaus) to the
MTA if possible, to get rid of some of the spam early.  You might
need more memory for your system.

Jeff Earickson
Colby College

On Fri, 8 Apr 2005, ste baume wrote:

> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 09:04:44 +0200
> From: ste baume <stebaume2004 at YAHOO.FR>
> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly
> 
> Hello,
>
> I omitted to speak about it but cache DNS is active.
> I just changed on spam.assassin.pref.conf the
> following directives :
> dns_available yes
> rbl_timeout 5 (instead 20)
>
> What do you think about it ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephane
>
> Jeff A. Earickson wrote:
>> Do you run DNS on your mailscanner box?  Are DNS
> lookups slow?
>> Having local (cached) DNS on the mailscanner box can
> make a
>> big difference in thruput.
>>
>> Jeff Earickson
>> Colby College
>>
>> On Thu, 7 Apr 2005, ste baume wrote:
>>
>>> Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2005 18:28:28 +0200
>>> From: ste baume <stebaume2004 at YAHOO.FR>
>>> Reply-To: MailScanner mailing list
> <MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK>
>>> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
>>> Subject: Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly
>>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> Since many days our MailScanner server have a
> curious
>>> behavior:
>>> - Most of the time they work slowly (less than 50
>>> mails by minute are treated) which causes latency
> to
>>> mail delivery (up to 4 hours)
>>> - Sometimes, they work normaly and they can empty
> the
>>> queues.
>>>
>>>
>>> First we suspected an issue between the Mailscanner
>>> server and the
>>> Exchange servers. But after many tests all seem to
> be
>>> OK on this point.
>>>
>>>
>>> When we disable SpamAssasin from the
> mailscanner.conf,
>>> the queues
>>> decrease quickly, but after hours the queues
> increase
>>> again.
>>> When we disable the Anti-virus from
> mailscanner.conf,
>>> we have no improvement.
>>> When we diable Mailscanner, and use only postfix,
> we
>>> have no problem.
>>>
>>> Volume : 150 000 messages per day
>>> Hardware : 1 Pentium Xeon 2.4G, 1.5 MB RAM, 36G
> SCSI
>>> HDD
>>> Software : RHE3, Mailscanner 4.40.11, Postfix
> 2.2.1,
>>> SpammAssassin 3.0.2, Kaspersky 5.0
>>> RBL : Postfix (SpamCop, ORDB, SPAMHAUS); None in
>>> MailScanner, all in SPAMASSASSIN
>>> Average Load : Around 6
>>>
>>> Is anybody can help us please, we are in dead end ?
>>>
>>> Stephane
>
>
>
>
>
>
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