Re: [vps-mail] SA 2.63 upgrade issues -

["Jonathan Duncan" <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Very nice, Abigail, thank you!
Jonathan


Abigail Marshall <abigail@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said:

> SA 2.63 beta is running so great on my VPS 1 that I had
> forgotten that the vinstall was still in beta. I have not
> experienced any memory problems on a very busy VPS1 C - I
> promised Jonathan on the Iserver list that I'd post a few
> caveats for the vinstall here (so it's available for others
> to refer to in list archives). [Scott - feel free to copy
> any info for any documentation or file you want to create at
> perlcode.org]:
> 
> 1. procmailrc file:
> 
> These lines should be in the file, and will be added by the
> vinstall if you opt to overwrite the old procmailrc file:
> 
> DROPPRIVS=yes
> 
> :0fw
> |/usr/local/bin/spamc -U /var/run/spamd.sock
> 
> When I used the vinstall, the program inadvertantly
> overwrote custom lines I had in my procmail file, to invoke
> post Spamassassin filtering. So while email was properly
> tagged, it was not directed to appropriate spam files and
> went directly to users instead.
> 
> This was MY fault, because I had inserted my custom filter
> above this line:
> 
>  ## end spamassassin vinstall (do not remove these comments)
> 
> However, I'm not the only one capable of making mistakes, so
> it is important to
>   a) Save old procmailrc file
>   b) Compare new & old after vinstall to make sure that any
>      custom recipes are not
> 
> Note re options:
> 
> -s max_size
>   Default Message Size:
>   spamc defaults to 250K which means messages larger than
>   250K will not be passed to spamd.  If you frequently
>   receive spam with larger attachments, you might want to
>   experiment with increasing this. Alternatively, if you
>   seem to have memory or server load problems, you may want
>   to set it smaller.
> 
> 
> 
> 2. Bayes database:
> 
> With PREVIOUS versions of SA, I have had problems on
> occasion with the Bayes database becoming corrupted if the
> bayes_seen file grows too large. I assume this was because
> of a memory or lock file issue associated with the sa-learn
> process.
> 
> To avoid this, I set this option in the local.cf file:
> 
> bayes_expiry_max_db_size 110000
> 
> (The default is 150,000).
> 
> I have not had any problems with this setting. This still
> leaves me with a fairly large Bayes database (5.5 Mg) and
> Bayes is working very effectively.
> 
> Documentation available online here:
> http://www.spamassassin.org/doc/sa-learn.html
> 
> 
> -Abigail
> 
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