Re: [exim] Exim+SA=Server Overloaded!

Top Page
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Author: Peter McEvoy
Date:  
To: Eduardo
CC: exim, sa
Subject: Re: [exim] Exim+SA=Server Overloaded!
On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 02:01:55PM -0200, Eduardo wrote:
> Hello!
> Sorry to send another email about the same subject. But my mail server
> crashed so i couldn't see the answers.
>
> I am calling my spamassassin service in SMTP time with some ACL rules in
> my exim4 configuration file. I start the SA service, start exim4 service
> and i wait only some minutes and the server gets overloaded!... almost
> impossible to loggin and shutdown manually the server.


I had similar issues, the solution, as someone on this list kindly
explained, was to limit the size of messages that SA scans.

condition       = ${if <{$message_size}{100k}{1}{0}}


Works very well for me.

Cheers

--
Pete