[Mimedefang] TestVirus.org

Just saw this on the Procmail Sanitizer list: This web site allows you to send a harmless test virus to any email address. If your mail server or email hosting provider is running anti-virus software, these emails should get blocked. Brought to you by Webmail.us The op

RE: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

> The slaves are in different processes, though, not just in different threads. > > The point is that you do NOT want to open a database connection, > call fork(), and then have more than one child try to use the same > database connection. They'll be sharing a file descriptor, and if both > try

RE: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well... you cache per-child nominally. It is not out of the realm of > possibility to have a thread-aware version of the DBI library that > handles the connect() and "unconnect()" requests in such a way as to be > real-time-safe but still cache. The

RE: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

> From: Mark [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > David F. Skoll wrote: > > >> Question, though, how will you keep a persistent, say, MySQL > >> connection in Perl, for the backend socketmap functionality? > > > > Keep a global variable called $DBH. Write code like this: > > > > # Put this at the top of yo

Re: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

David F. Skoll wrote: >> Question, though, how will you keep a persistent, say, MySQL >> connection in Perl, for the backend socketmap functionality? > > Keep a global variable called $DBH. Write code like this: > > # Put this at the top of your filter > undef $DBH; > > sub get_dbh { > # Re-us

Re: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Mark wrote: > Question, though, how will you keep a persistent, say, MySQL connection in > Perl, for the backend socketmap functionality? Keep a global variable called $DBH. Write code like this: # Put this at the top of your filter undef $DBH; sub get_dbh { # Re-use i

Re: SOCKETMAP performace (was Re: [Mimedefang] sendmail 8.13.0)

David F. Skoll wrote: > I expect that if you use a SQL backend, then keeping a persistent > connection inside MIMEDefang would be a big win compared to opening > a SQL database connection each time sendmail forks. Thanks for the work, David. :) Question, though, how will you keep a persistent, s

RE: [Mimedefang] Disabling spam checks on outgoing email

We run spamassassin on outgoing mail so we can spot users machines that are either compromised or are spamming for any other reason. We track number of messages and average score for the last hour, day and week so that we can ignore a single message that scores high, but spot a user consistently s

[Mimedefang] RAM usage on newer versions?

It seems each version of MD uses more and more RAM? I am wondering if there is anyway to slim down the amount of RAM that MD requires to run. I have a smaller machine that I cannot add more RAM to (old Sun box) and I am seeing 13MB+ (per) MD process. I have been running the embedded way, but I dont

Re: [Mimedefang] Disk imaging software

If you have tape drive, (used DAT tape drives are getting cheap) look at www.storix.com The personal edition is free to use, and you can create a bootable ISO that will start the restore from tape if you need to do a complete restore. Bill Curtis - Original Message - From: "Ben Kamen" <[E

Re: [Mimedefang] Disk imaging software

On Wed, 28 Jul 2004 16:31:51 +0100, in local.mimedefang you wrote: >I am about to upgrade my mail filters and I would like a quick way to >revert back to the previous environement. For regular backups, we use >Tivoli Storage Manager, but it is a pain in the butt for recovery of >other >than a