I use it on a large installation (up to a 2 million messages per day).
Do you have at least a caching name server running on the hosts where
you do the scanning? It does do quite a few DNS checks, which
could/would affect latency.
Brent Kennedy wrote:
> I don't mean to rain on the botnet plugin parade, but when I tried it, my
> mail queue slowed to a crawl. Mail became backed up pretty quickly with
> processing taking upwards of 10 minutes a message.
>
> Is there something in the config that I missed or it this plugin only meant
> for small installations?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Brent
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Schaetzl [mailto:
maillists@...]
> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 9:39 AM
> To:
users@...
> Subject: Re: Botnet 0.8 Plugin is available (FINALLY!!!)
>
> John Rudd wrote on Sun, 05 Aug 2007 19:39:07 -0700:
>
>>
http://people.ucsc.edu/~jrudd/spamassassin/Botnet-0.8.tar>
> Hi John, just checking out your plugin the first time. I notice that it just
> untars all files to the current location. It would be nice if you could
> encapsulate it in a directory, so that untarring creates a directory of the
> same name as the filename (without the .tar suffix, of course).
> Most tarred up distributions do this and if one doesn't and there are a lot
> of other files in the same directory it's a nuisance to "collect" your
> files.
>
> Kai
>
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