> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:amavis-user-
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Gwilt
> Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 10:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [AMaViS-user] Amavisd-new/Postfix plugged queue (Long)
>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to apolgize in advance for the length of this message.
>
> The hardware:
> Dell SC1600, Xeon 2.4G, 1G RAM, 2 18G SCSI drives
>
> Software (OS, etc)
> hostname: gw1.suite224.net
> FreeBSD 6.1
> amavisd-new amavisd-new-2.4.2 (20060627)
> postfix-2.3.20060207
> perl 5.8.8
> spamassassin 3.1.3 (running Razor2, URI checks, and a few SARE rulesets)
> clamav 0.88.4
>
> Our current email setup
> cambot.suite224.net (currently primary MX) running CGatePro 4.1.8
> gw0.suite224.net (outbound mail scanner) postfix/amavisd/sa/clamd
>
> I decided to place an inbound scanner in front of cambot using
> the same basic setup as I used for outbound mail, which has worked
> perfectly for over 2 years.
>
> Changed our primary MX record to gw1 and tailed (-f) /var/log/maillog.
>
> All seemed to go well for about 25 minutes, then the mailq started to grow
> and inbound mail was delayed.
>
> By the time 8 hours had passed, the mailq had grown to over 14,500
> messages and it appears that these are messages that have made it to
> postfix, but not yet to the smtp-amavis filter.
>
> >From the postfix master.cf:
>
> smtp inet n - y - - smtpd
> -o content_filter=smtp-amavis:[127.0.0.1]:10024
> smtp-amavis unix - - y - 4 smtp
> -o smtp_data_done_timeout=1200
> -o smtp_send_xforward_command=yes
> -o disable_dns_lookups=yes
>
> 127.0.0.1:10025 inet n - y - - smtpd
> -o local_recipient_maps=
> -o smtpd_restriction_classes=
> -o smtpd_client_restrictions=
> -o smtpd_helo_restrictions=
> -o smtpd_sender_restrictions=
> -o smtpd_recipient_restrictions=permit_mynetworks,reject
> -o strict_rfc821_envelopes=yes
>
> I'm running a bounce_queue_lifetime value of 2 hours
> initial_destination_concurrency = 50
> local_transport = local
> maximal_backoff_time = 2000s
> maximal_queue_lifetime = 1d
> minimal_backoff_time = 500s
> relayhost = [72.2.95.2]
> smtp_connect_timeout = 10s
> smtp_helo_timeout = 30s
> smtpd_recipient_restrictions = permit_mynetworks,
> reject_unauth_destination, reject_non_fqdn_recipient, reject_rbl_client
> sbl-xbl.spamhaus.org
>
> Here is the amavisd.conf file:
>
> use strict;
>
> $MYHOME = '/var/amavis';
> $mydomain = 'suite224.net';
> $daemon_user = 'vscan';
> $daemon_group = 'vscan';
> #$daemon_chroot_dir = $MYHOME;
> $path = '/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin';
>
> $QUARANTINEDIR = "/$MYHOME/quarantine";
> $TEMPBASE = "/$MYHOME/tmp";
> $ENV{TMPDIR} = $TEMPBASE;
> $helpers_home = $MYHOME;
> $pid_file = "/$MYHOME/amavisd.pid";
> $lock_file = "/$MYHOME/amavisd.lock";
> $db_home = "/$MYHOME/db";
> $SYSLOG_LEVEL = 'mail.info';
>
> $max_servers = 4;
> $child_timeout=20*60; # we need to adjust the timeout since it is not a
> localhost transfer
>
> $inet_socket_port = 10024;
> $forward_method = 'smtp:[127.0.0.1]:10025';
> $notify_method = $forward_method;
> $inet_socket_bind = '127.0.0.1';
>
> @local_domains_maps = ( read_hash("$MYHOME/local_domains") );
> read_hash(\%local_domains, '/etc/postfix/relay_domains');
>
> $DO_SYSLOG = 1; # (1 = syslog, 0 = logfile)
> $log_level = 2; # (0-5)
>
>
> $MAXLEVELS = 14;
> $MAXFILES = 1500;
> $MIN_EXPANSION_QUOTA = 100*1024;
> $MAX_EXPANSION_QUOTA = 300*1024*1024;
>
> # SpamAssassin settings
> $final_spam_destiny = D_DISCARD; # Set to D_REJECT, D_PASS to pass through
> $sa_local_tests_only = 0;
> #$sa_auto_whitelist = 1; # comment this line out to turn off auto
> whitelist
> $sa_mail_body_size_limit = 64*1024; # 64KB
> $sa_spam_level_char = 'x';
> $sa_tag_level_deflt = -999.0; # controls adding the X-Spam-Status and
> X-Spam-Level headers,
> $sa_tag2_level_deflt = 5.0; # controls adding 'X-Spam-Flag: YES', and
> editing Subject,
> $sa_kill_level_deflt = 15.0; # triggers spam evasive actions
> $sa_spam_subject_tag = '[SPAM] ';
> $spam_quarantine_to = '';
> $sa_debug = 1; # comment this line out to turn off debugging
>
> # Anti-Virus Scanner
>
> @av_scanners = (
>
> ### http://www.clamav.net/
> ['ClamAV-clamd',
> \&ask_daemon, ["CONTSCAN {}\n", "/var/amavis/clamd.sock"],
> qr/\bOK$/, qr/\bFOUND$/,
> qr/^.*?: (?!Infected Archive)(.*) FOUND$/ ],
> );
>
> $X_HEADER_TAG = 'X-Virus-Scanned';
>
> ### End here but keep the line below ###
>
> 1; # insure a defined return
>
> And finally, some of the log entries:
>
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: mail for
> [127.0.0.1]:10024 is using up 14037 of 14037 active que
> ue entries
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: you may need to reduce
> smtp-amavis connect and helo timeouts
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: so that Postfix quickly
> skips unavailable hosts
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: you may need to increase
> the main.cf minimal_backoff_time and ma
> ximal_backoff_time
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: so that Postfix wastes
> less time on undeliverable mail
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: you may need to increase
> the master.cf smtp-amavis process limit
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: please avoid flushing
> the whole queue when you have
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: lots of deferred mail,
> that is bad for performance
> Aug 22 03:58:41 gw1 postfix/qmgr[17562]: warning: to turn off these
> warnings specify: qmgr_clog_warn_time = 0
>
>
> I have tried modifying the settings, but to no avail. Any suggestions?
>
> FWIW, amavisd/spamassassin caught and either blocked or flagged 125,667
> SPAM messages in 13 hours.
>
> Thanks
Hi Tom
I have a mx front end that does grey listing.
288,762 messages were delayed, of these only 16,752 were re-delivered and
passed thru.
The reports reflect SAV rejections, and anviling and other checks. But of
the 838,000 rejects 34% were from grey listing.
Ed
2006.08.21 MX Servers
---------------------
##################
## Global stats ##
##################
Events : 528027
Passed : 210252
Early : 29013
Delayed : 288762
Probable SPAM : 283385
Throttled : 0
###############################
## Whitelist/AWL performance ##
###############################
Breakdown for 210252 accepted messages:
Whitelists : 2.69% (5656)
Domain AWL : 45.19% (95003)
>From AWL : 44.16% (92841)
Delayed : 7.97% (16752)
*************************************
Postfix log summaries for Aug 21
Grand Totals
------------
messages
286381 received
278376 delivered
14 forwarded
963 deferred (6943 deferrals)
10266 bounced
838k rejected (75%)
148243 reject warnings
0 held
0 discarded (0%)
7930m bytes received
7790m bytes delivered
118546 senders
61686 sending hosts/domains
38625 recipients
5753 recipient hosts/domains
smtpd
1413k connections
178149 hosts/domains
3 avg. connect time (seconds)
1265:42:39 total connect time
Per-Hour Traffic Summary
time recevd delivd deferd bouncd rj_4xx rj_5xx errlim rj_anv
0000-0100 9728 9527 215 252 9076 28127 13162 11610
0100-0200 7674 7154 175 685 9970 20840 10348 16404
0200-0300 7919 7819 249 419 10850 25060 11242 16106
0300-0400 7310 6977 261 271 10694 23646 9853 13828
0400-0500 8704 8157 239 462 13345 32960 12294 15521
0500-0600 10519 9993 222 417 14315 29585 12871 14781
0600-0700 11738 11699 147 360 12679 31496 11096 21326
0700-0800 13499 13503 212 296 13657 25789 10895 18010
0800-0900 14415 14410 175 490 12884 21261 10589 14227
0900-1000 15223 15542 259 628 12752 21755 9274 22018
1000-1100 17105 16715 269 438 10900 25816 8503 18338
1100-1200 18215 17968 282 491 11599 32252 8306 23202
1200-1300 14882 15169 283 269 11849 23758 9553 31882
1300-1400 16323 16056 307 1106 10060 23621 8951 24441
1400-1500 13992 14067 450 296 10779 21984 8684 19667
1500-1600 13048 12913 322 290 11835 19309 10225 16738
1600-1700 14323 13301 318 358 10938 19671 8998 13636
1700-1800 11017 10385 316 297 10158 23094 10129 10595
1800-1900 10411 9641 343 605 13821 20608 11460 19233
1900-2000 11663 10666 416 752 11868 21372 9439 13749
2000-2100 10047 9793 421 328 13591 20077 11401 12290
2100-2200 8212 7925 308 263 11684 20990 9451 9528
2200-2300 9508 8435 398 167 8068 27957 9504 9425
2300-2400 10906 10561 356 326 7750 22712 8265 11750
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