Mailscanner treats the mails very slowly

[ste baume]

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Hi,

/etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 2ndary DNS Server
domain mydomain.com

Stephane



Mike Kercher wrote:
> What does your /etc/resolv.conf have in it?
> 
> Mike
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf
> Of ste baume
> Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 2:05 AM
> 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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