> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2007 11:25 PM > To: users@spamassassin.apache.org > Subject: How do I temporarily disable SpamAssassin? > > > > 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?
I hope you aren't emailing from that server, you might not get these responses ;-) I would start with qmail (I use postfix, so I can't help) Do you have a valid list of user loaded on qmail? Can it reject DHA attacks right there? Can you limit (with qmail) the incoming queue when the outgoing queue is full? As for disabling SA, it really depends on how it was set up. You might want to backup all the qmail config files, and put in some default files. That way you can see how. Maybe, to help SA, you can disable all network tests for a short time (see local.cf) -- Michael Scheidell, CTO SECNAP Network Security Corporation Keep up to date with latest information on IT security: Real time security alerts: http://www.secnap.com/news _________________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned and certified safe by SpammerTrap(tm). For Information please see http://www.spammertrap.com _________________________________________________________________________
