Problem: CPU usage with procmail to high, MTA stops accepting email because of load average / Sendmail 8.11 has problems with SA and unexpected or long error codes.
Potential Resolutions and what I have learned thus far please feel free to adjust: Don't run your smtp server / pop3 server and SA on the same machine on heavily loaded server. SA takes 5-7 seconds per message and can leave hundreds of procmail processes running. Perhaps this is the best way. Case 1 ****** 3 or more machines: 2 running your MTA / SA / and procmail for delivery via NFS to your "main mail server" 1 "main mail server" running pop3 / IMAP agents and providing the services to your customers and supporting local file delivery via NFS from your front end machines I am thinking postfix for the front ends and then using courier pop/imap on the main server Case 2 ****** 1 or more head machine running a "multi threaded spam proxy" with SA which then processes the mail and sends it to "main mail server" running no SA just MTA / LDA / pop3 / IMAP keep existing sendmail config + qpopper / imap Case 3 ****** 1 or more head machine running with SA which connects to a SPAMD machine to do the scanning and then then processes the mail and sends it to "main mail server" running no SA just MTA / LDA / pop3 / IMAP keep existing config + popper / imap Brad _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
