[vox-tech] Test/Upgrade

[Rod Roark]

Tim, I see what you mean. The server is into swap space but is 
responsive and working, so nothing seems urgent. Probably what you want 
to do is research current best practices for spam control.

Cheers,
Rod

On 8/1/19 5:49 pm, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
> Rod,
>
> Oh lord. It appears that the beginning-of-month "reminder that you're
> on a listserv" emails all fell within that time period. Those emails
> timed out, which generated an email to tell us that it's timed out,
> which didn't get sent because *all* mail was timing out, all due to
> clamav apparently silently failing.
>
> Once clamav was brought back, it's started grinding through that
> queue... yikes. It's currently chewing up a huge block of memory.
>
> I am now entirely rethinking clamav's existence on the server. :/
>
>
> Tim
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 10:14 PM Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
>> Hi Tim, I just sent you a sample.
>>
>> I'm not a procmail guru... perhaps someone else here has ideas.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Rod
>>
>> On 8/1/19 4:55 pm, Timothy D Thatcher wrote:
>>> Hi Rod,
>>>
>>> Primarily me now, I think.
>>>
>>> What happened was that I discovered earlier today that ClamAV had
>>> apparently been misbehaving and had tanked mail/listserv service
>>> entirely, and for a few days, it turned out. I also actually ran an
>>> apt update/upgrade and rebooted the server myself several hours ago,
>>> and indeed it brought the mail server roaring back to life... which is
>>> probably why you've been seeing all those messages suddenly, as it
>>> tries to process through the backlog. Sorry about the blast of
>>> mailer-daemon notices. How/where are you receiving them?
>>>
>>> I'm still getting chunks of mail blasting in, myself, both daemon
>>> notices and junk. I installed clamAV (and spamassassin, too) a while
>>> ago when I was trying to clean up the mail server a bit. We have a
>>> pretty severe incoming spam problem, and particularly the way much of
>>> it is getting processed/procmailed out to me and other officers using
>>> gmail and similar services has actually been kind of a serious
>>> problem--and one that is going to need revisiting eventually. I'm up
>>> for suggestions on the next move.
>>>
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jan 7, 2019 at 9:29 PM Rod Roark <rod at sunsetsystems.com> wrote:
>>>> Checking if this still works.
>>>>
>>>> To LUGOD admin(s): I started getting a ton of "Undelivered Mail Returned
>>>> to Sender" emails from MAILER-DAEMON at lugod.org. It looked like ClamAV
>>>> being outdated might have been an issue so I did an upgrade and
>>>> rebooted. Not sure if that mattered though.
>>>>
>>>> Who's the LUGOD admin these days?
>>>>
>>>> Rod