Tobias, Thanks for your response. We only use spam assassin currently for 4 users on our system. I have not investigated the spamd daemon and client as of yet.
Is there a way to set a size limit as to which mails are scanned? That would be a perfect work-around for this. My sendmail has been running here for about 4 years now, and handles any size attachment with ease. Thanks again... I look forward to your responses. Joel Epstein Tobias von Koch wrote: > hi, > On Tue, 21 May 2002 08:50:57 -0500, Joel Epstein wrote: > > JE> I've been using Spam Assassin for a few months now and find it to be > JE> a fantastic project. My thanks go out to the team! > JE> > JE> I do have one major issue though; Whenever files with large > JE> attachments ( > 4mb )are sent into our domain, SpamAssassin will > JE> take about 45% of available memory and 98% of the processor > JE> according to output from the top command. > > do you use spamassassin directly or spamc/spamd? > > By default, only mails smaller than 250 KB are passed through spamd by > spamc. However, there is no such limit when you're using spamassassin > -P. > > Analyzing mails bigger than 250k doesn't make much sense because spam is > normally between 5 and 20 KB in size and matching the rules on big mails > takes lots of time and heavy CPU usage. > > JE> After about 10 minutes of churning, the mail will be returned to the > JE> > JE> sender with a SERVICE UNAVAILABLE message. Processor usage will > JE> return to normal at this point. Occasionally, the mail will get > JE> stuck in the mail queue, and oddly enough... actually append itself > JE> to other messages. In other words, normal small unrelated emails > JE> may suddenly become 5 mb, with their original content plus that of > JE> the stuck mail > > that is very strange - something must be wrong with your sendmail, too? > > tobias > -- ================================= Joel Epstein Manager of Systems Integration Integrated Warehousing Solutions 3075 Highland Parkway Suite 715 Downers Grove, Illinois 60515 Phone: 630.932.4300 Fax: 630.932.7652 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
