Re: [vps-mail] Spamassassin Out of memory!

[Abigail Marshall <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

MD> Hello,

MD> I just installed Spamassin on one of my VPS1 account and not for whole
MD> server. Only for 6 users. I checked now spam.log of one of users and only
MD> see six same messages:

MD> Out of memory!
MD> procmail: Program failure (1) of "/usr/local/bin/spamassassin"
MD> procmail: Rescue of unfiltered data succeeded

SA will have problems with large files because of memory
problems on the VPS.

The best thing to do is to (a) limit the size of the file or
attachment being fed to SA, and/or (b) run spamd rather than
spamassassin.

Look at the spam.log to get an idea of the size of most spam
that is correctly filtered, and start with a relatively low
file size and then experiment with raising the limit until
you figure out what is best for your system.

For spamassassin, set up procmail like this:

:0fw: spamassassin.lock
* < 50000
|/usr/local/bin/spamassassin

(50000 is the file size - the above recipe will only send
emails that are smaller than 50K to spamassassin. That can
be adjusted up or down as needed) The .lock
specification allows only one email at a time to be sent to
spamassassin, to prevent multiple spawning of processes).


For spamd your procmail should look something like this:

:0fw
|/usr/local/bin/spamc -p 1783 -s 75000

(75000 is the file size in this case; as noted, it can be
adjusted up or down as needed. I'm just sharing what works
for me)

-Abigail

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