[Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Fernando Gleiser
One of my clients has 40+ email accounts. At the gateway I'm runing sendmail 8.13.3 and mimedefang 2.54 on FreeBSD 5.4-p8. The gateway is a Pentium III 700MHz qith 512MB RAM. For such a small system it was more than enough. It worked flawlessly until the last version of sober hit it a couple

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread David F. Skoll
Fernando Gleiser wrote: It worked flawlessly until the last version of sober hit it a couple of days ago. Since then that piece of cr*p is hitting it with bursts where the server gets 60+ mails in less than 10seconds, so MD runs out of slaves. You might want to set the ConnectionRateThrottle

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Ben Kamen
is that's what seems to be crapping on the net lately. I got few of those - but not too many... Interesting notes... thanks.. begin:vcard fn:Ben Kamen n:Kamen;Ben adr:;;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:O.D.T. - S.P. x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.benjammin.net/ version:2.1

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Friday, November 25, 2005 12:43 PM -0500 David F. Skoll [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or you can use Sendmail 8.13's more fine-grained rate_control features so that any one IP address can't open too many connections too quickly. Nice, but note that it's FEATURE(ratecontrol). Look for that in

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Jan Pieter Cornet
On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 11:58:25AM -0600, Ben Kamen wrote: is that's what seems to be crapping on the net lately. I got few of those - but not too many... Not too many??? Wow. We just put our cricket graphs publicly online that show the number of received virusses per second, just to show the

Re: [Mimedefang] New Sober version bringing MD to its knees?

2005-11-25 Thread Aleksandar Milivojevic
David F. Skoll wrote: Fernando Gleiser wrote: It worked flawlessly until the last version of sober hit it a couple of days ago. Since then that piece of cr*p is hitting it with bursts where the server gets 60+ mails in less than 10seconds, so MD runs out of slaves. You might want to set the