On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 03:53:20PM -0700, Brock Nanson said: > I've got a server running a Discus forum in addition to Exim4, Clamav > and spamassassin. One of the functions of the forum is to send the > latest posting to all on the mail list. The result is a flood of mail > that Exim sends on to Clam and Spamassassin. > > Prior to adding Clam and SpamAssassin to the system, the discus mail > flowed without a hitch. Now, however, I seem to be hitting a bottle > neck with one or the other of the new additions (Exim winds up running > 20 or more times and turning away mail - 'too many connections'). I'm > wondering it has to do with the number of consecutive connections > allowed by the clamav conf file. If this is the case, I don't think the > solution is to increase the number to something exceeding the number of > mail list members... ;-) > > The logs are sort of chicken-egg. It's not apparent where the problem > starts, so I don't know what sort of 'relevant' configuration data to > post. Hence, I'm really just asking if mass mailings like this *could* > be an issue for Clamav, or if I should look elsewhere.
It sounds like for some reason you're running clam and SA against the outgoing mail, instead of incoming. Presumably when a message comes in, it's one message for 1000 recipients (or whatever), and then gets mailed off. Scanning just that one message would be a lot more efficient. If the message board actually sends 1000 emails individually, maybe that's what needs to be hacked on. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Stephen Gran | How do you power off this machine? -- | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Linus, when upgrading | | http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using | | | the machine for several months | --------------------------------------------------------------------------
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