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

[Zachary C. Miller]

I believe that imsahp email is still routed through an outside system
(Dan's electric-pickle). If we are seeing massive mail delays it may
possibly be due to a problem with that machine rather than a problem
with imsahp.

There is currently a 100 message sending backlog (mailq) on imsahp
which is fairly unusual (especially with offsite relaying).

Mail stuck in mailman moderation queues is very likely NOT the cause
of the problem. Once it's in the queue it shouldn't cause any delays.
Incoming new spam may be the problem. Other things may be the problem.
I hope that other root folks on imsahp can investigate this as I'm
basically completely unavailable until after September 8th.

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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