I am testing spamassassin on a test server at the moment but I am looking at deploying it onto a machine with 128 meg of ram in the future. The new rules have cut down the amount of spam overnight considerably. At the moment it is only serving 3 e-mail accounts and traffic is not too bad. The end game is to set it up for the whole company which is only 15 e-mail accounts max.
A couple things that spring to mind when I eventually do this 1. Can I move the bayes database to the new machine ? 2 Can I use only one bayes database for sitewide use ? 3. I use a .procmailrc per user, I have tried using just 1 as suggested in the manual for sitewide use ( yes I have read it ) but had problems, I think I need to try it again. I was getting a message in the procmail log file of "procmail: Skipped "/var/mail/junk" and then it eventually delivered it to my account. I think I tracked this down to a permissions problem, could this be so ? Ian "Martin Radford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > At Mon Dec 22 14:15:45 2003, Ian Duncalf wrote: > > > > Forgive me if I what I am asking is obvious to some but I would like to know > > how to use some of the rule sets that available e.g. bigevil.cf and > > http://www.merchantsoverseas.com/wwwroot/gorilla/90_FVGT.cf etc. > > > > I am running SpamAssassin v2.61 on SuSe 7.3. > > I am using Sendmail & the Procmail filter to send through SpamAssassin. > > I have tried Spamd but I am only using pentium 200mhz with 48meg ram and it > > was generating too many children even when I tried to limit it using thing > > the max_child options. > > To be honest, on a system of that specification, you really want to > stick to one (or possibly two) concurrent copies of SA. Anything more > than that and you risk getting bogged down with swapping. I use a 486 > with 32MB RAM, and that just about copes with scanning one message at > a time. > > Including more rules will increase the memory use of SA, and increase > the time taken to handle each message. Depending on your message > volume, you may find that your system just isn't up to adding the > additional rule sets. > > If you have the option of adding more memory, I'd recommend that you > seriously consider it. Even moving to 128MB will make a signicant > difference. > > Martin > -- > Martin Radford | "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] | men just upload their important stuff -o) > Registered Linux user #9257 | on ftp and let the rest of the world /\\ > - see http://counter.li.org | mirror it ;)" - Linus Torvalds _\_V > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. > Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's > Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. > Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn everything from the bash shell to sys admin. Click now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1278&alloc_id=3371&op=click _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
