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<DIV dir=ltr align=left><SPAN class=457511414-13022004><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff size=2>Still, it doesn't justify for 124GB extra in a
month!</FONT></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> MailScanner mailing list
[mailto:MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] <B>On Behalf Of </B>David
Hooton<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, February 12, 2004 5:55 PM<BR><B>To:</B>
MAILSCANNER@JISCMAIL.AC.UK<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: MailScanner ->
Spamassassin taking insane amount of bandwidth<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial color=navy size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">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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Hooton</SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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 face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Greetings,</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">I have the following
configuration:</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">mailscanner-4.25-14</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">with spamassassin
2.61</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">sendmail
8.11.6-27</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">on an IBM x235
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">2 2.4GHZ
Processors</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">1.25 GHZ of
RAM</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Hot swapable raid 5
config.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have about a 100 small sites
configured for mail mostly and some, web.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">This is running on RedHat Linux
7.3 Kernel 2.4.18-27.7.xsmp</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">We have been running MailScanner
on that machine for almost 2 years now without any
problems.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"></SPAN></FONT> </P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; 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></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Has anyone ever heard of
SpamAssassin doing this?</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial">Thank you in advance for your
help.</SPAN></FONT></P></DIV>
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Security<BR></FONT></A><BR><FONT size=1>To report SPAM forward the
message to: <A href="mailto:spam@mailsecurity.net.au"><FONT
color=#333333>spam@mailsecurity.net.au</FONT></A><BR>To report
incorrectly tagged messages: <A
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