This was covered only yesterday... please search before you post! Rubin
On Tue, 2003-12-23 at 03:47, Ian Duncalf wrote: > 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 -- Rubin Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> RB Technologies
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