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<div>I will look into the queue size setting. But this does not seem to be the issue. What happened is all the emails every single one got marked as spam so where not delivered even the white listed ones. <br>
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On May 28, 2014, at 7:51 AM, "Jerry Benton" <<a href="mailto:jerry.benton@mailborder.com">jerry.benton@mailborder.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>See ... my wife was right. I am wrong all the time. <br>
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On the same note, I am seeing similar behavior on a lab server I just built testing out Ubuntu 14.04. I will email results when (if) I have them.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 2:22 PM, Richard Mealing <span dir="ltr">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m not sure that is correct, but I may be wrong too!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># If more messages are found in the queue than this, then switch to an<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># "accelerated" mode of processing messages. This will cause it to stop<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># scanning messages in strict date order, but in the order it finds them<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># in the queue. If your queue is bigger than this size a lot of the time,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># then some messages could be greatly delayed. So treat this option as<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"># "in emergency only".<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Max Normal Queue Size = 2000<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">So it just stops in the date order and goes for what is top of the queue. I set mine to 2000 but it never reaches that now I have made all my changes.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">You should look into tmpfs, it has brought down the load on my servers considerably. I use it for a few things now –
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Incoming Work Dir = /tmpfs<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">SpamAssassin Cache Database File = /tmpfs/SpamAssassin.cache.db<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">SpamAssassin Temporary Dir = /tmpfs
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Maybe run some gstat commands and check your disks are behaving. If not, then implement tmpfs.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Thanks!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Rich<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"" lang="EN-US">
<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>]
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: Has anyone seen when the load on a MailScanner server<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt">What is happening is your queue is exceeding the threshold set (800 by default I think) where MailScanner just starts to process the email without scanning it. If your server is getting hit by a surge of email
and MailScanner cannot keep up, it stops doing checks. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Of course, I could be wrong. Happens a lot.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 8:57 AM, Joolee <<a href="mailto:mailscanner@joolee.nl" target="_blank">mailscanner@joolee.nl</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">You probably hit a timeout somewhere. Can you find out from the logs which component times out?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 28 May 2014 03:37, Philip Parsons <<a href="mailto:pparsons@techeez.com" target="_blank">pparsons@techeez.com</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gets too high like 5 or 6 that MailScanner marks all messages as spam ? If you have seen this is there something we can change that changes the process ?<br>
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