[ENBD] Re: sorry bout the spam that gets through from time to time

[Peter T. Breuer]

On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:05:00PM +0100, Martin Sackman wrote:
> I can only guess that the threshold that they use is higher than the
> default (5) as I've left the threshold at 5 here and spamassassine is
> catching out the spam just fine.

Can't be. That spam registered at 15 on my filter.


I suspect that when they get spammed it loads up spamd. Spamd stops
responding, spamc times out, and the mail gets delivered by default.

I hate spamd. It can fill all my memory and swap with 30 copies of
itself, each 12MB. And I overcommit memory! I think each image
is a copy of perl. 

And then there's the fact that procmail holds a lock, so that
everything piles up against the lock ...


Peter