[Cialug] spam filtering

[Nathan C. Smith]

Does amavisd-new run as a daemon?
Why are they accepting mail to bounce to a non-existent host?
Have you looked into tarpit for this client?

-----Original Message-----
From: Dave Weis [mailto:djweis@sjdjweis.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2004 11:29 AM
To: cialug@cialug.org
Subject: [Cialug] spam filtering




I've got a client that's getting about 25k emails per day, 95%+ is spam. 
We are running on redhat 9 with amavisd-new amavisd-new-20030314-p2 and 
postfix 1.1.11 using the content filtering and sophos as the AV plugin. We 
are having severe load problems and mail speed is a couple minutes for 
incoming mail. Part of the problem is that we will get 200-500+ messages 
stuck in the queue waiting to bounce to non-existant hosts. Would an 
upgrade to a newer version of amavisd-new help?

dave


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