[GRLUG] Email overload

[Ben Rousch]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 4:04 PM, Joe Vanderstelt <
thisboyiscrazy+grlug at gmail.com <thisboyiscrazy%2Bgrlug at gmail.com>> wrote:

> many of the people at my company have had the same problem recently. I
> updated my postfix configuration, implemented gray-listing and SPF.
> That seemed to fix the problem, at least we no long receive the bouce
> (Undelverable type) emails.
>
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Ben Rousch <brousch at gmail.com> wrote:<http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug>
> >
> > I don't really have an answer for you, but I noticed that our incoming
> spam
> > jumped up 100% in the last 2 days. It is up 1000% since the beginning of
> the
> > year. I was hoping the flood would abate, but it seems to only be
> getting
> > worse.
>
> <http://shinobu.grlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/grlug>
>

My spam filter (spamassassin w/ bayes + a couple rbls + SARE) is still
filtering very well - very few spams get through to my users' Inboxes.
However the mail server is working quite a bit harder with all the extra
filtering. The 15 minute load average is up from about 0.1 to 0.35.
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