Re: [SAtalk] handling spamc failures...

2004-01-06 Thread Tim B
Kris Deugau wrote: With your method of making sure mail gets scanned, mail will slowly build up in the queue until the server runs out of disk space, the MTA can't process the queue because it's too big, or SA's memory usage triggers the Linux kernel OOM process killer. (Exactly which happens fir

Re: [SAtalk] handling spamc failures...

2004-01-06 Thread Kris Deugau
Tim B wrote: > This way regardless of the reason, if X-SPAM-STATUS header is > missing, we will assume spamc had some kind of problem, and then we > will use the good ol' stand by command line spamassassin. On a heavily loaded server, this is downright *suicidal*. spamd/spamc are used to reduce s

[SAtalk] handling spamc failures...

2004-01-06 Thread Tim B
I think we all have our favorite ways of calling spamc/spamassassin, and one of my biggest concerns is that spamd will die for some obscure reason and mail will stop getting scanned, or I'll be restarting spamd and a flood mail suddendly comes in. Well this is how I finally settled into my co