<snip... snip... snip.. ouch> > > In your sendmail.cf you'll want to tune: > > > > QueueLA > > RefuseLA > > MaxDaemonChildren > > ConnectionRateThrottle >
This is all really interesting to me as we have had mail wars on occassion on our large servers. Some of them are self-inflicted eg some system process has problems, sends mail to indicate prob, the sent mail makes the prob worse generating more mail... Obviously some of this is due to (faulty?) sysadmin philosophy. Compare this to netsaint which only reports a host or service (like smtp) down once, doesn't rebroadcast, can even be tuned to report only during certain hours. Other things (like disk gets full, breaks procmail and thus spamassassin) are not as easy to deal with. I've set the above params (btw, sendmail must be compiled specially to get load-average working) but have also changed the default sendmail startup to run the que every 5 minutes. But even more importantly is the concept of running several queues simultaneously rather than single-threaded st if one thing blocks the que... see http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/doc8.12/TUNING =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- generated by /dev/dave -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= David Stern University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: INetU Attention Web Developers & Consultants: Become An INetU Hosting Partner. Refer Dedicated Servers. We Manage Them. You Get 10% Monthly Commission! INetU Dedicated Managed Hosting http://www.inetu.net/partner/index.php _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
