Mailscanner mqueuein trouble

Res res at ausics.net
Sat Jul 22 01:13:10 IST 2006


On Fri, 21 Jul 2006, Denis Beauchemin wrote:

> Res a écrit :
>> On Thu, 20 Jul 2006, Denis Beauchemin wrote:
>> 
>>>> So in essence, S.A is good for stopping about 0.1% of it.
>>>> nice and handy and warns the suer the otehr 99.9% of the time BUT because 
>>>> its a warning  people will at least start to read it to see if its spam 
>>>> or genuine.
>> 
>>> I disagree with you.  SA, if you tune it right, will detect pretty much 
>>> ALL spam.  But it needs lots of RAM.
>>> 
>>> We warn users above 5 and delete mails above 20 and yesterday we managed 
>>> to delete 59% of spam...
>>> 
>> 
>> Then its not catching the sort of crap we see, as per my previous most of 
>> it is low scoring so they see it anyway, if I was to run your settings here 
>> it would be a pure waste of time because you are still sending 99% of it to 
>> users to evaluate if itsspam or not, but each network to their own i 
>> supose.
>> 
>> But I see in your followup post you only do about 100K a day, we have 3 
>> machines that do 3/4 of a million+  and 1 that does well over a million a 
>> day (which is the problem one) each so they are not exactly little 
>> machines.
>> 
>> 
> I can't imagine what it would be like if I had that many emails...  but I 
> still think things like DCC/Razor/Pyzor might help you out.

Running pyzor, but not razor or DCC, maybe they are worth looking into ?


>
> Denis
>
>

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Cheers
Res


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