[IMC-Tech] Re: [Imc-web] Email and imsahp Tue Aug 22 10:42 CDT reboot

[dan blah]

zach or anyone else who knows,
what have you been doing for spam in the past?  i am using
spamassassin on other servers that which seems to work out just great.

On 8/22/06, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> I ended up with messages on a few lists that were more than a week old.
>
> What may be part of the problem is that I've found that many of the
> lists I'm on have had sporadic admining lately. For the lists that I get
> admin notices for, I try to keep regularly cleared out. I know that many
> of the lists I have admin access to, but am not listed as an admin, have
> ended up with very extensive backlogs consisting mainly of spam.
>
> It may just be the August slump for admins, but I have to say that after
> a year when the lists I admin have seen steadily building amounts of
> spam getting stuck in moderation, maybe many of those admining other
> imsahp lists have started to simply ignore the lists and let the
> backlogs grow. It is disocuraging to log in, after ignoring all those
> notices, and find hundreds of spams to dump. Maybe that's part of the
> issue, but since I'm mostly clueless when it comes to such network
> stuff, maybe I'm just throwing out a red herring and all the crap stuck
> in moderation has no effect on things, except psychologically for those
> who are listed as admins.
>
> In any case, the spam has steadily become more of an issue in terms of
> the time I spend dealing with it. If drastic measures are needed to get
> things under control, then I'm in support of doing what we gotta do to
> take the server back from the byte-criminals.
> Mike Lehman
>
> Daniel Lewart wrote:
> > UCIMC Tech and Web,
> >
> > This morning I found that despite relatively low load averages, email
> > delays were intolerable, so I rebooted imsahp at Tue Aug 22 10:42 CDT.
> >
> > Some old email has been dribbling though, but there is still a
> > considerable backlog.  I had noticed a sudden increase in 50K-70K spam
> > to my moderated lists recently.
> >
> > I'm worried that spam is killing imsahp.  Here are two solutions:
> >   1) Put a spam/virus filtering machine in front of imsahp
> >   2) Discard anything greater than a particular size (e.g. 20K)
> > Obviously, there are others.
> >
> > Good luck!
> > Dan
> > lewart at ucimc.org
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Daniel