[Cialug] spam filtering

[Jeff Davis]

Are the bounces in the queue very old?
i.e. have you set a 'maximal_queue_lifetime' in your postfix conf?
I think the default is 5 days.

Jeff Davis


Dave Weis wrote:
> 
> 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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