[Cialug] spam filtering

[Dave Weis]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2004, Jeff Davis wrote:
> 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.

We cut it down to 1 day and that helped a bit but it's still a lot.

I did change the default response for unwanted mail to reject instead of 
bounce just now, we'll see what that does.

> 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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