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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Martin, sorry for bothering you, but is there a description on
how smf-sav actually works. How does it check the recipient of my domains? Does
it know somehow how to get to the exchange server for each domain>? I cant
find any descriptions on the workings?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Thanks a lot <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info
[mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Martin
Hepworth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2009 12:27<br>
<b>To:</b> MailScanner discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: MailScanner slowwing down<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>you need to do a lookup on each address rather than keeping
it a file you have to maintain - smf-sav can do this quite easily although it's
main purpose it to check senders it can also check recipients <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html">http://smfs.sourceforge.net/smf-sav.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>-- <br>
Martin Hepworth<br>
Oxford, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>2009/4/30 Mail Admin <<a
href="mailto:mailadmin@midland-ics.ie">mailadmin@midland-ics.ie</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The unknown recipients would
solve a lot of the problems.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I’m not sure if I can get my
head around this though.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>The Server has some local
domains with pop3 and the big domains I relay on to their Exchange Server.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>I’d love to put all the valid
exchange users in a file and allow the system to only accept for thes valid
addresses, but is there an easy way? So my exchange domains I lookup a
file of addresses and other local I use the access file?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'>Thanks</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'>From:</span></b><span
lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt'> <a
href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info" target="_blank">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>
[mailto:<a href="mailto:mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info"
target="_blank">mailscanner-bounces@lists.mailscanner.info</a>] <b>On Behalf Of
</b>Martin Hepworth<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 30 April 2009 10:26<br>
<b>To:</b> MailScanner discussion<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: MailScanner slowwing down</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>See<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a
href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips"
target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#optimization_tips</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>and<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><a
href="http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin"
target="_blank">http://wiki.mailscanner.info/doku.php?id=maq:index#getting_the_best_out_of_spamassassin</a><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>Dropping unknown recipients and having a local caching nameserver are
generally the first things to sort, then look at the number of children and
batch size...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>-- <br>
Martin Hepworth<br>
Oxford, UK<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p>2009/4/30 Mail Admin <<a href="mailto:mailadmin@midland-ics.ie"
target="_blank">mailadmin@midland-ics.ie</a>><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p><span lang=EN-GB>Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB>Recently I am finding that the amount of incoming mail
through my MailScanner Server is really slowing down things. There
is a heavy load now since I took on a domain that seems to me well spammed.
Yesterdays processing processed 22,000 emails @88% Spam approx.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Server Spec POWEREDGE 1850 XEON 2.8GHZ/2MB 800FSB – WITH 2 GIG RAM and RAID
1 Configuration on two Disks RPM 10K… Its Running Fedora Core 5, Send
Mail 8.13.8-1.fc5 with MailScanner 4.69.7-1 with SA, Razor, DCC., MailWatch V1<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Its working very well blocking spam, but only in the last couple of days its
got really slow. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Any ideas on how to reduce the load on this server>? By blocking mail at
the MTA before it hits MS? OR Tweaking my processes?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>What do the Experts think on the Server Spec, for the amount of traffic?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>I’d appreciate any help<o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p>Kevin<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span lang=EN-GB> </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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