Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread EACSI Support
Great! -- thank you! I appreciate all advice ... and will start reading Thanks Russ Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/10 19:12, EACSI Support wrote: That sound great! We are using PostFix Thank You Russ Ah, great. Here's a couple guides I wrote for greylisting and postfix restricti

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/1/2010 3:10 PM, Ned Slider wrote: > On 01/11/10 13:17, John Hardin wrote: >> On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: >> >>> Suggestions will be appreciated. >> >> You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume. >> >> Greylisting has been suggested; I see good results from it h

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/10 19:12, EACSI Support wrote: That sound great! We are using PostFix Thank You Russ Ah, great. Here's a couple guides I wrote for greylisting and postfix restrictions. They are based on CentOS, but the principles are no different for Ubuntu. http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/post

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Russ Sanders
That sounds great! We are using PostFix ... Thanks Russ Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/10 13:17, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: Suggestions will be appreciated. You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume. Greylisting has been suggested; I s

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread EACSI Support
That sound great! We are using PostFix Thank You Russ Ned Slider wrote: On 01/11/10 13:17, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: Suggestions will be appreciated. You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume. Greylisting has been suggested; I se

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Ned Slider
On 01/11/10 13:17, John Hardin wrote: On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: Suggestions will be appreciated. You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume. Greylisting has been suggested; I see good results from it here. Rejecting messages that do not have a FDQN in the H

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Per Jessen
EACSI Support wrote: > The system commonly runs 2 to 3 connections to spamd with a maximum of > 5, but when the email load gets high, it only seems to give two > connections to spamd for the 1 user that is receiving the highest > amount of eMail (8,000 per day). > > The problem is that the eMail

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/1/2010 2:26 PM, EACSI Support wrote: > > I read up on processing at SMTP time & GreyListing and it sounds > effective. If you are not already doing so, I would highly recommend using the zen.spamhaus.org blacklist at the SMTP level. It will block a large chunk of spam before SA even has to

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread EACSI Support
I have had many helpful responses and I appreciate it. Some simple answers : The system is a "Linode 512" which is a virtual server hosted on a larger system of which I don't have the true specifications. Howerver, it runs as a 4 CPU/Core system with 512M of memory. I am looking at adding m

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Per Jessen
Theodoros V. Kalamatianos wrote: > You keep mentioning SA throughput statistics, but you do not mention > at all how your server fares load-wise. If your CPU(s) is(are) at 100% > or your system is swapping a lot then simply raising the number of SA > processes will not really help. > >> The syste

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Theodoros V. Kalamatianos
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 running on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. This works out to be a

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Bowie Bailey
On 11/1/2010 12:59 AM, Russ Sanders wrote: > I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 > running > on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one > account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. > This works

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread John Hardin
On Mon, 1 Nov 2010, Russ Sanders wrote: The system is a basic Linode running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 with 512M of memory. Any way to add more RAM? Suggestions will be appreciated. You want to do things at SMTP time to reduce your email volume. Greylisting has been suggested; I see good results

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Martin Gregorie
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 04:59 +, Russ Sanders wrote: > I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 > running > on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one > account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR.

Re: spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-11-01 Thread Per Jessen
Russ Sanders wrote: > I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version > 3.2.4 running on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). > I have at least one account that is having to process from 250 - 400 > emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. This works out to be approximately 8

spamassassin - more children / faster scanning

2010-10-31 Thread Russ Sanders
I have an Ubuntu Linux server running SpamAssassin Server version 3.2.4 running on Perl 5.8.8 with zlib support (Compress::Zlib 2.008). I have at least one account that is having to process from 250 - 400 emails, 99% spam, per HOUR. This works out to be approximately 8,000 emails per day. The sp