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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