Problem with MailScanner failing to process mqueue.in mail

[Jim Holland]

Hi

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Thom Jones wrote:

> Hi to Jim and Everyone (I'm new to this list):
> I just had the same thing happen to me.
> Result here was that the bigevil.cf and blacklist.cf files got updated a
> couple days prior and they were huge...huge enough to overwhelm system
> resources when running SA.  This effectively shut down MailScanner as well.
> Once I reverted back to the earlier (and much smaller) .cf files, things
> cleared out eventually and got back to normal.
> I've now been reconfiguring and upgrading in order to use SURBL instead.
> Not sure if it's the same cause on your end, but hope this helps....

Thanks for the feedback.

I don't have the resources to run SA on this server, but don't see any
sign of running out of resources with the configuration that I am using.
The load average is running between 3 and 6, so that looks fine.

Regards

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

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