[sclug] Spamassasin / Procmail / Sendmail limiting problem

[Hamlesh Motah]

James and Keith,

Thanks guys, this should do the trick :)

Hamlesh.



-----Original Message-----
From: James Wyper [mailto:jrwyper at yahoo.co.uk] 
Sent: 20 January 2005 10:15
To: admin at hamlesh.com; sclug at sclug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [sclug] Spamassasin / Procmail / Sendmail limiting problem


I think there's something you can do in the procmail rules to "lock the
mailbox" or similar to ensure that only one instance runs at a time
(presumably you're invoking spamassassin through procmail).  I think that
spamassassin itself also runs faster (ptic. if launched multiple
times) if you use the compiled spamc / spamd method rather than the
(perl) spamassassin executable itself.

Sorry if all this is a bit hazy, but if you google around for the terms
"infinite ink procmail spamassassin" (or variants on these) you should turn
up a * very * useful guide to setting up procmail, SA, etc.

HTH,
James.

 --- Hamlesh Motah <admin at hamlesh.com> wrote: 
> Hi all,
> 
> I have recently setup a replacement local mail server.  The server 
> runs fetchmail, connects to an imap server, grabs new email, passes it 
> through spamassassin and delivers it locally.
> 
> The problem I am having is if the machine has 100 emails to fetch it 
> ends up highly loaded and becomes really unresponsive.  Checking top 
> shows multiple copies of sendmail, procmail and spamassassin running.
> It's a little P2 ~300Mhz so you can imagine trying to run 30+ of the 
> above processes isn't fun for it :)
> 
> When I setup the last machine to fulfil this role there was a flag 
> somewhere in a config file that would allow a throttle to be placed on 
> spamassassin, so that it only spools x number of processes.  I have 
> searched high, low, and on G and cant for the life of me find it.
> 
> Am I imagining setting such a property the previous time?
> 
> A very bemused Hamlesh.
> 
> 
> 
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