You know, this seems a lot like some problems we have had on and off. We
only use SA and ClamAV for filters too - having gotten rid of most of our
other filters.
I am not sure how I would go about trying to capture this either.
J
On 5/3/05 1:38 PM, "Anita Holmgren" <anita@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 6:13 PM -0500 5/2/05, Kahan, Heinz wrote:
>> Brian,
>>
>> I had a similar problem.
>>
>> Ended up I had too many spam filters in the PostOffice interface.
>>
>> Many SMPT-Accept process would stack up, and SMTP would grind to a halt as
>> it was checking through all the filters.
>
> Just to add a little ... Heinz is correct in that if for some reason
> Post.Office starts to slow down or stops sending mail altogether the
> culprit is usually the SMTP-Accept processes stacking up. However
> this is not due to "too many" filters, but ill-formed filters, or
> filters in the message body.
>
>> I removed the majority of the SPAM filters from PostOffice and entered them
>> directly in the Spam-Assassin config file.
>
> And, yes, since we now have SpamAssassin, letting SpamAssassin do the
> bulk of the filtering and reserving the SMTP filters for specialized,
> even temporary filters is probably the best way to go.
>
> Brian, if you haven't added new filters recently, you might want to
> have Tenon take a look at your system.
> -Anita
>
>>
>> Seems to have fixed the problem.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> -hhk
>>
>> ==========================================
>>
>> Heinz H. Kahan
>> Systems Manager - Molecular Microbiology
>> Washington University School of Medicine
>> 660 S. Euclid Ave, Box 8230
>> St. Louis, MO 63110
>>
>> voice: 314.362.2816
>> fax: 314.362.1232
>> email: heinzk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Brian Fries [mailto:webdna@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 6:04 PM
>> To: post_office@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Server stops receiving mail
>>
>> Over the past week or so, Post.Office has periodically stopped
>> receiving new mail. I can still check mail, but no new mail arrives
>> until I restart the server.
>>
>> I've tried stopping and starting Post.Office, but that doesn't restart
>> receiving. Only restarting the server works, of the things I've tried,
>> which is a bummer because this is my Web server as well. After the
>> restart, messages sent in while the server was funky trickle in, with
>> no apparent loss of messages.
>>
>> Any suggestions on where to look for a reason would be most welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
>> -- Brian Fries, BrainScan Software -- http://www.brainscansoftware.com
>> --
>>
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