Anti-spam

[Jon Bendtsen]

Den 12. aug 2004, kl. 5:38, skrev Bradley M Alexander:

> I'm running into a problem that has revealed itself in the past week. I
> installed Kolab server and used the instructions Ian (?) posted several
> months ago to deploy SpamAssassin. Things worked great until last week.
>
> The problem is that last week, my ISP spent a lot of its time down. 
> Every
> time it came back up, my email was forwarded to my mailserver, but 
> every
> time, the load average goes to 34+ and stays there for hours as
> spamassassin brings the box to its knees. Also, I have noticed that hte
> automatic training doesn't seem to work too well. Before I deployed 
> Kolab,
> I was using SpamAssassin (in daemon mode) in addition to BogoFilter.
>
> My question to the group is whether anyone has deployed any other 
> antispam
> tools and if they had a howto?

i would suggest greylisting, but it doesnt work as good unless all
MX receives run it.


JonB