Re: [Mimedefang] Disk imaging software

2004-07-29 Thread Jim Hatfield
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 few

Re: [Mimedefang] Disk imaging software

2004-07-29 Thread mimedefang
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

[Mimedefang] RAM usage on newer versions?

2004-07-29 Thread J.D. Bronson
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

RE: [Mimedefang] Disabling spam checks on outgoing email

2004-07-29 Thread John Scully
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

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

2004-07-29 Thread Mark
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,

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

2004-07-29 Thread David F. Skoll
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 if

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

2004-07-29 Thread Matthew.van.Eerde
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 your filter

[Mimedefang] TestVirus.org

2004-07-29 Thread Kenneth Porter
Just saw this on the Procmail Sanitizer list: http://www.testvirus.org/ 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