Yes they are rejecting mail for unknown users. However, currently I have it discard flagged spam, rather than reject it. Granted there are some that SA does not catch, therefore go into the whole limbo situation.
I currently have no way for this machine to check the validity of a user. :( It resides on the 3rd box and by then it's already 'processed it'. I'm almost now wondering if there is another issue I may have overlooked. If you're running that on one machine, makes me wonder. I will investigate on that part. -Alan Fullmer www.xnote.com www.zoobuh.com -----Original Message----- From: Bowie Bailey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2006 2:44 PM To: 'SpamAssassin Users' Subject: RE: Load Balancing with Postfix [and SpamAssassin] Alan Fullmer wrote: > > The setup works, however I get so backlogged. For example, running a > mailq as we speak, comes up with: > 35918 Kbytes in 5257 Requests. > > It eventually gets through, and during the night it catches up. I am > seeing delays up to 3 hours sometimes. I tail -f the maillog file > and it's constantly running, so there is definitely activity. > Running top indicates 4 main processes with spamd indicating the > slowdown is, indeed, with SpamAssassin. I originally thought it > might have something to do with the Bayes database, but for fun, I > deleted it to see what would happen. Same result. > > I am running a dual P3 1ghz machine currently and have plans to > upgrade that to a dual xeon 3ghz. However, I know this is only a > temporary solution and at this point I'm not sure that it's enough. Are your gateway machines rejecting mail for unknown users? If the two SA boxes are accepting all mail for the domain, then they have to scan mail that will never be delivered. Even worse, once your mailbox machine rejects the mail, you will have to generate a bounce message. And if the email had a faked From address, this bounce message will be undeliverable and will sit in your queue until it times out and generates a double-bounce to postmaster. I went from three virus scanning machines and a separate mailbox machine, to a single machine that runs ClamAV and SpamAssassin as well as hosting the mailboxes. -- Bowie
