I have a FreeBSD machine running qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. The machine is receiving 200,000 e-mail messages per day, courtesy of Rumpelstiltskin attacks from thousands of different IP addresses each day, and SpamAssassin appears to be overwhelmed. I have about 50,000 e-mail messages in my qmail queue and the queue is growing by more than 1,000 e-mail messages per hour.
I want to temporarily disable SpamAssassin to free up enough resources to let the mail queue clear. How do I do that? If anyone knows how to temporarily disable ClamAV too, I'd be ecstatic to learn how to do that too. I've read Life with qmail and the SpamAssassin documentation at http://spamassassin.apache.org/ but I'm not connecting the dots. Unfortunately, I didn't set up this machine and I don't have a good grasp of qmail, SpamAssassin and ClamAV. Thanks in advance for any guidance and all practical suggestions you can offer.
