[afnog] Spamassassin with postfix

Antonio Godinho antonio at uem.mz
Fri Sep 1 10:07:56 SAST 2006


I am using plain spamassassin with the filter.sh through postfix. Even with 
this method I am getting the "command_time_limit" bounces.
I will see how I can run the spamc/spamd with postfix.

Cheers,

AG

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006 18:22:41 +0200, Alan Barrett wrote
> On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Antonio Godinho wrote:
> > It seems the spamassassin consumes most of the CPU, many times it is 
around 
> > 98% as well. This is happening even though I don't have any internal 
mails 
> > being sent out and have very few mails coming in (around 20/min). Is 
this 
> >6normal for spamassassin?
> 
> Are your using the spamc/spamd client/server or just plain spamassassin?
> spamc/spamd is usually much more efficient than plain spamassassin,
> because it parses those huge perl modules and rule sets much less
> often.  In my case, spamc/spamd takes about 1 second per message,
> as opposed to plain spamassassin's 10 seconds per message.  (Times
> are very rough estimates.)  However, spamc/spamd seems to be more
> likely to sometimes get confused and take forever to process a message;
> sometimes even their built-in watchdog timers don't kill them 
> properly, so I had to add a wrapper to kill spamc after a few 
> hundred seconds.
> (Failure to do that causes postfix to kill procmail after 1000 
> seconds -- "command_time_limit" in postfix/main.cf --, which leads 
> to bounced mail.)
> 
> --apb (Alan Barrett)
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Antonio Godinho
B.Sc., MCP+I, MCSE, CCNA, CCNP
CIUEM
Maputo
Mozambique



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