Comments on: Server problems

By: Debra J Davis

Debra J Davis — Thu, 23 Jun 2005 23:43:28 +0000

all sent mail is being daemon server and not sent

what should I do

By: Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Spam Assassin

Incoherent Babble » Blog Archive » Spam Assassin — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 19:09:31 +0000

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By: Dougal

Dougal — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 18:58:23 +0000

Right now, most of the problem stems from trackback spammers. The trackbacks don’t get through, due to a good blacklist. But the horsepower required to process trackbacks coming in so fast is what’s killing the server most of the time.

I’ve modified my system monitoring scripts so that when the load threshold is triggered, it temporarily renames the trackback module, then re-enables it after a five minute sleep.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 17:47:46 +0000

SA was killing my server so often that I stopped using it. Performance has not been a problem since.

By: Dougal

Dougal — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:30:24 +0000

To be honest, I’m not sure. I’m not the person who set SA up on the box originally, so I’m still trying to get a handle on how it’s configured right now. Basically, though, I think all it’s doing now is tagging messages. I’m thinking that I should consider rejecting messages from RBL blacklisted sites outright, at the SMTP level.

By: Geof F. Morris

Geof F. Morris — Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:45:59 +0000

What SA features would you be considering using, Dougal? Sometimes I have the same problem [although I run off a dual-CPU box, so this isn't so much a problem anymore ...].

By: The War on Spam

The War on Spam — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Server problems