login class for mail users

[Wolfpaw - Dale Corse]

Actually.. just to mention something. I don't have the class you
seek.. but I have noticed something about spamassassin. We were
using qmail-scanner-queue to process mail with it.. and it works
excellent.. except that its a massive waste of system resources.

I would do the following before setting any limits (which should
be there anyway).. it worked well for us:

A) Make sure your mail servers use spamc, not spamassassin
B) Use the following as a processing script replacement for
   qmail-queue:

#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/bin/spamc | /var/qmail/bin/qmail-queue

Perl is a horrible resource hog at startup time.. one should avoid
running large numbers of perl scripts over and over again at all
costs I would say. It is excellent for some things.. but mail is
not one of them, IMO :)

Obviously, if your not using qmail (Gasp?!) this doesn't apply :)

Just my 2 cents. :)
D.
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Dale Corse
System Administrator
Wolfpaw Services Inc.
http://www.wolfpaw.net
(780) 474-4095

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eric W. Bates
> Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 9:09 AM
> To: freebsd-isp at freebsd.org
> Subject: login class for mail users
> 
> 
> Anyone have a login class for mail users which they have 
> found sets reasonable limits?
> 
> I've found I need to cap SpamAssassin.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> 
> Eric W. Bates
> ericx at vineyard.net