[SAtalk] Seeing alot of this error from SA 2.6

I am seeing alot of this error in maillog from SA 2.6 Is it anything to be worried about? How to fix it? spamd[15640]: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/spamd line 554. Thank you. Gus - This mail sent with 3w

[SAtalk] spamd error message from logs

On RedHat 8.0, perl 5.8, SA 2.43 I get this error message often in my logs: Oct 24 13:37:09 blacktip spamd[24511]: Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected continuation byte 0xa0, with no preceding start byte) in transliteration (tr///) at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.6.1/Mail/SpamAssassin/EvalTests.pm

Re. [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users - Getting spikes on CPU

Hello all, My goal today is to get this filtering working on my 4 mail servers. Just a summary of my situation. I dont know if anyone is using this is a heavy production environment ( I assume so ) but I am running 4 Quad Xeon servers (1 Gig RAM) and Spamassassin (spamd) and routing mail that has

[SAtalk] CPU load reduction efforts. local.cf - what can I add to it?

I have this in my local.cf I am still getting huge CPU spiked from spamd I am trying to disable external lookups that may be taking CPU This does not seem to have much effect. I also have a dedicated and very fast DNS server for these 4 mail servers What can I add to this local.cf file? # This

[SAtalk] Real quick question about sendmail integration..

. Thanks Gustave This mail sent with 3Web WebMail http://www.3web.com --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf

[SAtalk] how to delete messages instead of just marking as [SPAM]

I want to run smapassassin site-wide using spamc. All works fine and is marking messages with [SPAM] How can I delete these messages instead of still delivering them? Thanks Mark --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future

Re: [SAtalk] how to delete messages instead of just marking as [SPAM]

Thanks. However not too sure how to do this: I have this in my /etc/procmailrc DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * < 256000 | spamc What should I add? Thanks much! Mark Quoting Neal Hughes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Use procmail to put them in spam mailbox. > > -Neal. > > At 10:53 AM 10/23/2002 -060

[SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

Hello all, I am using spamc for all users through /etc/procmailrc on 4 servers and spamassassin works great. The problem is that it loads up the CPU to 4.0 and often 10.0 or above. How can I reduce this? Eliminate razor check is one I have seen on some other posts. What would be the best to t

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

I am running it through spamd an I not? Procmail is the MTA and here is the system wide /etc/procmailrc DROPPRIVS=yes :0fw * < 256000 | spamc So, spamc is the daemon is it not? Thanks Mark Quoting Jure Pecar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 13:00:16 -0600 >

RE: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

Tried that. Load still went up to over 10.0 Any other ideas on reducing the load put on by spamassassin? Thanks Quoting Steve Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > | Suggestions appreciated. > | > | :0: > | * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > | /dev/null > > suggestion: > You don't need to specify file loc

Re: [SAtalk] how to reduce CPU useage. 70,000 users

R_AGENT_OUTLOOK -0.006 > #score GIFT_CERTIFICATE 0.004 > > score EXPECT_TO_EARN 0 > score SUPERLONG_LINE 0 > score RISK_FREE 0 > score MIME_BOUND_DIGITS_30 > score BIG_BUCKS

[SAtalk] Bad bug in Perl or spamd.

This will come up alot on RedHat 8.0 users and high volume users. After much trouble shooting and trial. All users running perl 5.8 and spamassassin will find this: I am running RedHat 8.0 with spamassassin ( was 2.32 that comes with RedHat 8.0 ) 2.43 and the default Perl 5.8. I receive

[SAtalk] How to skip scan on large messages

What directive can I put in local.cf to stop SA from scanning messages over a certain size? Does anyone use this? I am trying to reduce system load. Thanks Mark --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) techno

[SAtalk] Suggestions on how to add virus scanning

On RedHat 8.0 running SA through procmail site-wide ( using sendmail as MTA )I want to add virus filtering as well. What is the easiest way to add this? It looks like Amavis is a popular choice but it apears to remove procmail as the MDA in the sendmail.cf file. Is this the case? Looking f

Re: [SAtalk] perfmance and machine sizing

I have found spamd and spamc to be quite effective and fairly low load with a high volume. I scan over 2 million messages a month on each of 4 mail servers with almost 30 being marked as spam. The machines I have are Dual xeon 1.8GHZ boxes with a GIG of RAM each. Mark Quoting gagel <[EMAIL PROT