On 2007-08-19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
#/usr/local/etc/rc.d/sa-spamd stop > If anyone knows how to temporarily disable ClamAV too, I'd be > ecstatic to learn how to do that too. Disable the daemon: #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-clamd stop Disable the sendmail milter: #/usr/local/etc/rc.d/clamav-milter stop You may want to configure your MTA to reject bogus messages during the SMTP negotiation to decrease the spamassassin load. -- John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
