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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Have you perhaps considered that the last
month’s mail traffic has increased fairly significantly? MyDoom on it’s
own was more than half of our traffic for a day or so.</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>-----Original Message-----<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf
Of </span></b>Yannick Cayer<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Friday, 13 February 2004
7:03 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> MailScanner ->
Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I have the following configuration:</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>mailscanner-4.25-14</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>with spamassassin 2.61</span></font></p>
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font-family:Arial'>sendmail 8.11.6-27</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>2 2.4GHZ Processors</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>1.25 GHZ of RAM</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Hot swapable raid 5 config.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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and some, web.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>We have been running MailScanner on that machine for almost
2 years now without any problems.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Since we have activated the anti-spam features using
SpamAssassin, and standard Spam-Checking throught the ORBS lists, our
bandwidth usage has more than doubled.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Before activating that feature, we were using 80-100GB of
bandwidth per month. Now we're up to 224GB for last month.</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>Has anyone ever heard of SpamAssassin doing this?</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
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