On 2025-07-11 at 16:12:23 UTC-0400 (Fri, 11 Jul 2025 22:12:23 +0200) Hans Mayer <sysadmins@spamassassin.apache.org> is rumored to have said:
> Dear All, > > I receive here a lot cron job messages. > Is this the a normal behaviour in this mailing list ? > No. But also yes. Today's flood is the result of me restarting Postfix on the sa-vm machine after it had been stopped for almost a month. That stoppage was a result of a DDoS on that machine that has been ongoing for many months to varying degrees. So there was about a month's worth of cron output from a machine that was being pounded into the ground with traffic and hence was having a LOT of failures generating traffic here. So: NO, this was not a normal rate for this mailing list. HOWEVER: A lot of work is done by cron jobs of the automc user on sa-vm. They are intended to fail loudly. Mostly they do not fail. It is possible for that machine to generate ~100 messages per day. It only does so during periods of extraordinary stress. It is a good idea to have mail for this list automatically delivered somewhere other than your Inbox. I posted a warning message about this flood yesterday shortly before unleashing it. -- Bill Cole b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org (AKA @grumpybozo@toad.social and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) Not Currently Available For Hire
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